Not only does Chris Hedges make the case for our current economic, social and political condition, but gets a little to close too the truth for NewsBusters. Check out this whiny article of false equivalence.
Former NY Times man Chris Hedges Admits He Is a Socialist, By P.J. Gladnick 2008
Surprise! Surprise! Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges has admitted what almost anyone familiar with his reality-challenged rantings already knew: he is a socialist. Hedges explains in Truthdig Why I Am a Socialist (emphasis mine):
The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties. The Democratic and Republican parties have become little more than squalid clubs of privilege and wealth, whores to money and corporate interests, hostage to a massive arms industry, and so adept at deception and self-delusion they no longer know truth from lies. We will either find our way out of this mess by embracing an uncompromising democratic socialism—one that will insist on massive government relief and work programs, the nationalization of electricity and gas companies, a universal, not-for-profit government health care program, the outlawing of hedge funds, a radical reduction of our bloated military budget and an end to imperial wars—or we will continue to be fleeced and impoverished by our bankrupt elite and shackled and chained by our surveillance state.
This was just the intro. Now fasten your seatbelts as Hedges leaves behind any semblance of sanity:
The free market and globalization, promised as the route to worldwide prosperity, have been exposed as a con game. Corporations have intruded into every facet of life. We eat (and) buy from corporations. We borrow from corporate banks. We invest our retirement savings with corporations. We are entertained, informed and branded by corporations. We work for corporations. The creation of a mercenary army, the privatization of public utilities and our disgusting for-profit health care system are all legacies of the corporate state. These corporations have no loyalty to America or the American worker. They are not tied to nation states. They are vampires.
CORPORATIONS!!! Sloooowly I turned...step by step...inch by inch...Hedges' belief in the evil supposedly perpetrated by corporations sound even funnier than an Abbott and Costello routine when he quotes psychologist Robert Hare about their "psychopathic traits."
Hedges forgot to mention that evil corporations are also the cause of athlete's foot and uncontrollable drooling. Meanwhile do you notice not the slightest bit of castigation of communist (or socialist) governments from Dear Chris? People in North Korea are starving but it must be the fault of those nasty corporations in the Chris Hedges fantasy universe.
Hedges concludes with a dire warning that if President Obama does not destroy the evil corporations, then the country is doomed to be ruled by a "perverted Christian fascism" and a "ruthless totalitarian capitalism."
If Barack Obama does not end the flagrant theft of taxpayer funds by corporate slugs and the disgraceful abandonment of our working class, especially as foreclosures and unemployment mount, many in the country will turn in desperation to the far right embodied by groups such as Christian radicals. The failure by the left to offer a democratic socialist alternative will mean there will be, in the eyes of many embittered and struggling working- and middle-class Americans, no alternative but a perverted Christian fascism. The inability to articulate a viable socialism has been our gravest mistake. It will ensure, if this does not soon change, a ruthless totalitarian capitalism.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Chris Hedges collect a fat paycheck for 15 years from a certain corporation known as the New York Times? Hypocrisy, thy name is Hedges.
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