Chris Hedges on Talk Of The Nation: "We've undergone a kind of corporate coup d'etat in slow-motion"

[kpete]

Last edited Thu May 16, 2013, 03:33 PM - Edit history (1)

Looking Ahead: Chris Hedges On Poverty, Politics, U.S. Culture

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I think we have powerful proto-fascist movements in this country, and I look at the Tea Party, the militia, the Christian right, where they celebrate the language of violence, they celebrate the gun culture. And they channel what I would describe as a very legitimate rage and a legitimate sense of betrayal towards the vulnerable, towards Muslims, towards undocumented workers, towards homosexuals, intellectuals, feminists, liberals. They have a long list of people they don't like. And I think that is a very - remains a very frightening and powerful undercurrent within American society.

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And what you get when you enter that kind of ideological belief system is you no longer deal with reality. You believe that - you believe in magic. You believe that Jesus will intervene to protect you and promote you, and then it becomes impossible to have a kind of rational discussion, for instance with people who believe that, you know, everything - the Earth was created 6,000 years ago, and there were dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden.

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I think it's important that, you know - and Sheldon Wolin writes about this in "Democracy Incorporated" - that we have the facade of the democratic state, and yet what we've undergone is a kind of corporate coup d'etat in slow-motion...



http://www.npr.org/2013/05/15/184232470/looking-ahead-chris-hedges-on-poverty-politics-u-s-culture

[Stainless]

1. "Talk Of The Nation" - NPR

NBC, Face the Nation and David Gregory wouldn't allow an honest truth seeker like Chris Hedges to expose their rank hypocrisy and lies.

[LeftInTX]

2. I kinda thought it was too good to be true...........

[kpete]

5. thanks

for being there
for me with that edit.

peace, kp

[Initech]

3. They didn't need to stage one during FDR's presidency.

They just needed to wait 70 years with a dumbed down media and a population who gives Fox News way more power than it should. It really is quite sad. I wish we had a Smedley Butler to prevent them from doing so again.

[xchrom]

4. Du rec. Nt

[SpearthrowerOwl]

6. I love Neil Conan

It's really quite a shame that NPR is getting rid of Talk of the Nation at the end of June, not only did the show have Chris Hedges on recently, but Neil even expressed severe concern over the national security state recently as well as talking about the value of working outside the confines of moneyed coercion (what a communist!111!1) Talk of the Nation even had on Noam Chomsky back in 1999!

But yeah, when I turned on the radio and heard Chris Hedges was on I was so surprised I just about swerved my car into a highway dividing barrier..

Also, does Neil Conan's voice and political persuasion remind anyone else of Rick Steves?