Listening to him was like listening to NPR – sounds intelligent but gets many of the facts wrong.
His repeated assertion that Obama promissed to fillibuster things is ridiculous. Presidents cannot fillibuster anything as they are not part of the legislative process.
The other major issue I have with his statements is how the Tea Party was originally against Wall Street and Dick Army took it over and channelled that anger towards government. He states that government is not the problem, but Wall Street. News flash Mr. Hedges – BOTH ARE THE PROBLEM. Actually, government IS the bigger problem as their function is to uphold the law and attend to the welfare of the nation and it’s people. wWall Street has no such function. Wall Street is the corruptor, but government is the one that allowed itself to be corrupted. They are the ones who have sold out.
There is also very little liberal about the Democrats. The meaning of the word “liberal” has been twisted into something beyond recognition. What the Democrats are can best be described as blend of socialist/fascist statists. The Republicans are mostly corporatist statists. Not a whole lot of difference between tge two.
Mark
September 3, 2014 12:53 pm
The art shamanship. Say a few truths or as many truths as possible and throw the big canard in that you’ve hidden under your sleeve all along.
This is what new age cults such as Scientology are all about. This is what Hedges so called “corporate elite ” is all about.
Yeah, like Chief financial officers and CEOs have so much time on their hand they can sit around in back rooms smoking cigars and plan to subject the peoples.
That’s the business of all of Washington who have nothing better to do all day then to figure out what Hula Hoop you should have to jump through next.
The fact is no one likes to be ruled or have the perception of being ruled whether they are or not. This is the foundation of divide and conquer. The oldest game in the book.
When the shit hit the fan the shit the Chris Hedges have been throwing out their for 40 years is going to blow back and hit them in the face.
Albrecht
September 3, 2014 1:30 pm
Hedges complains that the Tea Party’s rage has been directed away from Wall Street (where he feels it belongs) toward government. But Wall Street, per se, is not the problem. Allowed to stand or fall on their own investors and speculators can only do limited damage to society as a whole. It is only when they come to control the uniquely coercive power of the state that they become dangerous to the common good. “Government” (such as we currently enjoy) is indeed the problem. What the original Tea Party movement really was reacting to was the collusion between a massively corrupt and powerful state and the financial industry. An all-powerful and increasingly centralized state becomes a one-stop-shop for the lavishly funded influence peddlers who swarm on Washington, DC like flies on shit. Smaller, decentralized government is necessarily more responsive to local concerns and more troublesome for rich men to buy up in one swoop. So let the traders on Wall Street takes their gains and loses as they will. Keep politics out of their casino.
Listening to him was like listening to NPR – sounds intelligent but gets many of the facts wrong.
His repeated assertion that Obama promissed to fillibuster things is ridiculous. Presidents cannot fillibuster anything as they are not part of the legislative process.
The other major issue I have with his statements is how the Tea Party was originally against Wall Street and Dick Army took it over and channelled that anger towards government. He states that government is not the problem, but Wall Street. News flash Mr. Hedges – BOTH ARE THE PROBLEM. Actually, government IS the bigger problem as their function is to uphold the law and attend to the welfare of the nation and it’s people. wWall Street has no such function. Wall Street is the corruptor, but government is the one that allowed itself to be corrupted. They are the ones who have sold out.
There is also very little liberal about the Democrats. The meaning of the word “liberal” has been twisted into something beyond recognition. What the Democrats are can best be described as blend of socialist/fascist statists. The Republicans are mostly corporatist statists. Not a whole lot of difference between tge two.
The art shamanship. Say a few truths or as many truths as possible and throw the big canard in that you’ve hidden under your sleeve all along.
This is what new age cults such as Scientology are all about. This is what Hedges so called “corporate elite ” is all about.
Yeah, like Chief financial officers and CEOs have so much time on their hand they can sit around in back rooms smoking cigars and plan to subject the peoples.
That’s the business of all of Washington who have nothing better to do all day then to figure out what Hula Hoop you should have to jump through next.
The fact is no one likes to be ruled or have the perception of being ruled whether they are or not. This is the foundation of divide and conquer. The oldest game in the book.
When the shit hit the fan the shit the Chris Hedges have been throwing out their for 40 years is going to blow back and hit them in the face.
Hedges complains that the Tea Party’s rage has been directed away from Wall Street (where he feels it belongs) toward government. But Wall Street, per se, is not the problem. Allowed to stand or fall on their own investors and speculators can only do limited damage to society as a whole. It is only when they come to control the uniquely coercive power of the state that they become dangerous to the common good. “Government” (such as we currently enjoy) is indeed the problem. What the original Tea Party movement really was reacting to was the collusion between a massively corrupt and powerful state and the financial industry. An all-powerful and increasingly centralized state becomes a one-stop-shop for the lavishly funded influence peddlers who swarm on Washington, DC like flies on shit. Smaller, decentralized government is necessarily more responsive to local concerns and more troublesome for rich men to buy up in one swoop. So let the traders on Wall Street takes their gains and loses as they will. Keep politics out of their casino.