Reply #21: It means... "the coup d’etat is over, and they won"

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/live_chat_chris_hedges_on_global_warming_20100721

Live Chat: Chris Hedges on Global Warming

... Well, the coup d’etat is over, and they won. We lost. And now we have to learn to cope with it. It is very clear that the engines of corporatism and globalization are going to kill the ecosystem, no matter how many dead zones are created in the Gulf of Mexico or protests organized ... It’s all hijacked, the political system, financial system ... hijacked military complex, it’s hijacked, even all of our social and educational systems ... We’ve allowed these corporations to snuff out all voices of sanity and decency ...

The environmental catastrophe we are experiencing aside, the paragraph I find most telling is this:

... the liberal class betrayed the working class. It should have walked out with the passage of NAFTA, but it didn’t, and it continued to support. We have a working class but not one that can earn wages with pensions. The largest, most catastrophic mistake that the liberals made was to embrace capitalism when they should have embraced the workers. The fact that they continued to speak in a hypocritical language where they claimed to care about the working class when they betrayed them made them not only impotent but also a ridicule.

DU discussion on the article here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8869989