Refris, Michigan, México y Bush

Salon. com presenta hoy un my interesante artículo sobre fenómenos complejos...

Feb. 7, 2004 | GREENVILLE, Mich. -- The big election-year question for voters in this charming little town of 8,000 in north central Michigan was posed last year -- on October 21, to be exact.That's when Electrolux annonced that it would close the refrigerator factory that had been the mainstay of the local economy since 1877 and move its operations to Mexico. As a result, most of the plant's 2,700 workers would lose their jobs.

Until then, many local Democrats had been focused on the war in Iraq and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction, explains the Rev. Vince Lavieri, chair of the Montcalm County Democratic Party. But after the announcement, that changed, Lavieri says. "Everyone began thinking: Where am I going to find work?"

With the economy and the "jobless recovery" topping concerns of voters nationwide, it's no surprise that Michigan Democrats heading to their caucus polling sites this Saturday are overwhelmingly focused on their economic future. After all, Michigan is tied with Oregon for the second highest unemployment rate (7.2 percent, compared with 5.7 percent nationally), and the state has lost more than 300,000 jobs -- including nearly 200,000 in its crucial manufacturing sector, over the past three years."

Trabajos de los obreros van a México, de los programadores a India... pronto solo la élite creativa tendrá trabajo en Estados Unidos... pero eso promete ser un gran problema para la democracia americana. Esperen un backlash, una gran venganza de los rednecks. El péndulo puede irse de la ultraderecha a la ultraizquierda... quizá no encarnado en Kerry, pero sí en una radicalización del discurso político en la Deep America. Si antes vimos terrorismo de derecha (Oklahoma) en Estados Unidos, no se sorprendan ver la versión de los "contricantes". Después de todo, los apuestos se tocan...