Chris Hedges on The Christian Fascist right in America

[marmar]

Run time: 10:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74yJid1kUAc   Posted on YouTube: September 15, 2011 By YouTube Member: Alkindi90 Views on YouTube: 104   Posted on DU: September 23, 2011 By DU Member: marmar Views on DU: 1330

 

[Pharaoh]

1. kickin for later

[Lars77]

2. Chris Hedges is an extremely well respected journalist. People should take note. Dominionism.

[provis99]

3. and Hedges proves that leftists can be intolerant fascists, too.

[Meshuga]

4. What do you mean? n/t

[provis99]

5. fascist, intolerant crap he writes like this stuff:

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/03/13/chris_hedges

Yeah ok Chris. American atheists are just like al-Qaeda.

or his vile, hate filled book When Atheism Becomes Religion.
some quotes from the book here: http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/12/chris-hedges-doesnt-like-us.html

[pretzel4gore]

6. 99 percent of American voters were against the $700 billion bailout

yet you have energy to say Hedges might fear the atheists (despite proof that Jesus was a blonde... i mean god!)

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. That word don't mean what you think it does

[CrawlingChaos]

9. I'm very grateful to him for writing that

Someone had to call out the warmongering authoritarian jackboot New Atheists on their crap. Or do they deserve a pass in your book?

[Dumpster Macaine]

8. What's Changed?

I agree with Mr. Hedges take on the current Christian-Fascist connection, but was disappointed he didn't point out here (and in his debate with Christopher Hitchens) that it's nothing new.

If anyone bothered to look you'd see the Anglo-American political-financial establishment, and the Church, were in bed with all the old Fascists, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Batista, and the Greek Monarchy. General Smedley Butler, a U.S. folk hero, blew the whistle on an apparent Fascist takeover of the United States in the early 40's. Wall Street, The Church, and the White House also supported every fascist after W.W. II, the list endless.

What we're seeing now, the melting of big money and religion into big politics is nothing new. What's new is, after decades of corporate media brainwashing, nobody knows it anymore.

[Overseas]

10. K&R. Brilliant! Great to hear a scholarly Christian discuss these issues.

[baldguy]

11. This book came out in 2007. But what happened in 2008?

"In order for these movements to take power they need a long period of instability or crisis. And we don't have it."