The Brink

9/25/2019

**_A left-leaning film made by a left-leaning filmmaker for a left-leaning audience, which doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know_** >_Displaced workers, along with others who fear for their livelihood, are fertile ground in which to sow anti-immigrant sentiment, since angry and frustrated people often seek some target on which to blame their problems. The right-wing has organised and manipulated such anger and resentment, turned it away from corporations, and directed it against the government, decrying high taxes and the inability of the state to solve problems such as soc__ial deterioration, homelessness, crime, and violence. In addition to the target of failed liberal policies, immigrants make a convenient and tangible target for people's anger. Racial prejudice is o