Marc Lamont Hill discusses the future of liberal democracy under Trump with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and former war correspondent Chris Hedges.
Chris, you covered so much ground with Marc, and you did it so pithily, clearly, and forcefully. A seminar in half an hour. I hope it will reach the huge audience that it deserves.
I became aware of the lack of democracy when I realized it was the party bosses who decided who we could vote for in elections. Truman became president only because the party bosses removed vice president Henry Wallace from the ticket within a few months of the president's expected death.
In 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court halted the vote recount in Florida and made GW Bush president whose incompetence led to the success of the 9-11 Saudi hijackers led by bin Laden who was a friend of the Bush and Prescott families and a contractor under GH Bush when he headed the CIA.
The party bosses give us people like the war monger Hillary Clinton and genocide Joe as candidates and ignore the anti worker aspect of these people. It is actions that matter and not rhetoric by politicians. The DNC as with the Republican party works for the affluent elites in the country and not for working men and women or their families.
Oh, what a great explanation of why fascists use Christianity as they've already entered into the portal of magical thinking --so they no longer need unions, health care insurance coverage, an old-age social safety net.... Thanks Chris!
"With Donald Trump back in the White House many are questioning whether the age of liberal democracy is coming to an end." Like supplying bombs to Israel to implement a genocide, or killing some 6 hundred thousand Ukranians in a proxy war to bring down Putin doesn't answer his question. What a biased an idiotic intro.
Well, at least we eventually got a balanced perspective on this issue. To introduce this talk with that one sided perspective no doubt would turn off a whole lot of people. Trump's four years in office and the biased take many liberals adopted, as they supported the anti-Trump mantra of the democrats didn't nothing but undermine are so called democracy even further. Encourage black and white thinking and you have no thinking at all.
Did it ever ??
Chris, you covered so much ground with Marc, and you did it so pithily, clearly, and forcefully. A seminar in half an hour. I hope it will reach the huge audience that it deserves.
it never did.
so VERY convincing again, chris hedges. thank you both! and be safe!
To imagine democracy as having ever existed in the United States requires both imagination and ignorance. The one thing one might say in favor of this political moment is that has ripped the liberal mask off the brutality of an unapologetic empire finally exposed to the world for what it has long been. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/fears-of-a-fascist-future-overlook?r=97w99&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
I became aware of the lack of democracy when I realized it was the party bosses who decided who we could vote for in elections. Truman became president only because the party bosses removed vice president Henry Wallace from the ticket within a few months of the president's expected death.
In 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court halted the vote recount in Florida and made GW Bush president whose incompetence led to the success of the 9-11 Saudi hijackers led by bin Laden who was a friend of the Bush and Prescott families and a contractor under GH Bush when he headed the CIA.
The party bosses give us people like the war monger Hillary Clinton and genocide Joe as candidates and ignore the anti worker aspect of these people. It is actions that matter and not rhetoric by politicians. The DNC as with the Republican party works for the affluent elites in the country and not for working men and women or their families.
What a tour de force! I miss Chomsky desperately, but you Chris, make up for that gaping hole left by his absence.
Oh, what a great explanation of why fascists use Christianity as they've already entered into the portal of magical thinking --so they no longer need unions, health care insurance coverage, an old-age social safety net.... Thanks Chris!
Cris, is there a written transcript available
Bourgeois capitalist empire cannot afford democracy lol
Except as theater
Powerful interview. Let's begin anew countering the radical MAGA malarkey
"With Donald Trump back in the White House many are questioning whether the age of liberal democracy is coming to an end." Like supplying bombs to Israel to implement a genocide, or killing some 6 hundred thousand Ukranians in a proxy war to bring down Putin doesn't answer his question. What a biased an idiotic intro.
Well, at least we eventually got a balanced perspective on this issue. To introduce this talk with that one sided perspective no doubt would turn off a whole lot of people. Trump's four years in office and the biased take many liberals adopted, as they supported the anti-Trump mantra of the democrats didn't nothing but undermine are so called democracy even further. Encourage black and white thinking and you have no thinking at all.