By Chris Hedges
10/13/08 TruthDig
It is no longer our economy but our democracy that is in peril. It was the economic meltdown of Yugoslavia that gave us Slobodan Milosevic. It was the collapse of the Weimar Republic that vomited up Adolf Hitler. And it was the breakdown in czarist Russia that opened the door for Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Financial collapses lead to political extremism. The rage bubbling up from our impoverished and disenfranchised working class, glimpsed at John McCain rallies, presages a looming and dangerous right-wing backlash.
As the public begins to grasp the depth of the betrayal and abuse by our ruling class, as the Democratic and Republican parties are exposed as craven tools of our corporate state, as savings accounts, college funds and retirement plans become worthless, as unemployment skyrockets and as home values go up in smoke we must prepare for the political resurgence of a reinvigorated radical Christian right. The engine of this mass movement-as is true for all radical movements-is personal and economic despair. And despair, in an age of increasing shortages, poverty and hopelessness, will be one of our few surplus commodities.
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Chris Hedges is point on. When one sees the exact same things happening as one writes, they are not lemmings or sheeple they are independently minded thinkers.
Chris Hedges has written the books that need to be written about these American times we live in. Couple him with Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf and what they see happening and we are about to be Shocked and Awed into tomorrow.
Not nice……but all true.
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A great but horrible synopsis that is probably a very accurate description of the future.
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