Reply #35: Here's one.

[troubledamerican]

I think Chris Hedges is a giant fraud (check out his March 2003 NPR Talk of the Nation appearance -- he wasn't opposed to the Iraq War).

But here's his latest column (slightly more realistic):

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/29-2

Is America ‘Yearning For Fascism?’

I have seen this drama. I know each act. I know how it ends. I have heard it in other tongues in other lands. I recognize the same stock characters, the buffoons, charlatans and fools, the same confused crowds and the same impotent and despised liberal class...


The unraveling of America mirrors the unraveling of Yugoslavia. The Balkan war was not caused by ancient ethnic hatreds. It was caused by the economic collapse of Yugoslavia.


The Democrats and their liberal apologists are so oblivious to the profound personal and economic despair sweeping through this country that they think offering unemployed people the right to keep their unemployed children on their nonexistent health care policies is a step forward.


Our continued impotence and cowardice, our refusal to articulate this anger and stand up in open defiance to the Democrats and the Republicans, will see us swept aside for an age of terror and blood.