Below is an excerpt from a Chris Hedges interview with the Real News titled “America Is a Tinderbox.” In the interview, Hedges seems to be channeling Bernie Sanders, or Bernie Sanders today seems to be channeling Hedges, or they all seem to be channeling the Green Party. One hopes the everyone who is channeling one another here could realize that and begin to work together. Hedges: “We have allowed ourselves to embrace an ideology which, at its core, states that all governance is about maximizing corporate profit at the expense of the citizenry. For what do we have structures of government, for what do we have institutions of state, if not to hold up all the citizenry, and especially the most vulnerable? . . . With the wealth given to us as Americans, we could have eradicated poverty. We could have created a country that was much different than what we have created. And what’s happening now is that we are being rapidly reconfigured into a kind of neo-feudal society, an oligarchic society where increasingly the bottom two-thirds of Americans are hanging on by their fingertips. You have a shrinking, diminishing middle class and an elite that is just making obscene amounts of money at our expense. And you can’t sustain—first of all, you can’t sustain a democracy in an oligarchy. That’s not a new idea. Thucydides wrote about that about ancient Athens. But secondly, because there are no self-imposed limits—and in this sense Karl Marx was right, that unfettered, unregulated capitalism, especially on a global scale, is a revolutionary force. They will push and push and push until there is a backlash.” therealnews/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10461
Posted on: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:10:03 +0000
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