Posted on 07/29/2015 10:05:29 AM PDT by wenn
The election of Obama was one more triumph of illusion over substance. It was a skillful manipulation and betrayal of the public by a corporate power elite. We mistook style and ethnicity - an advertising tactic pioneered by Calvin Klein and Benetton - for progressive politics and genuine change.
See Chris Hedges interview on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RokDpEtuwyM
am I in trouble for this post?
Well.. you listed yourself as the author of the video.. so you're not really off to a stellar start.
What you mean "we", white man?
Welcome to FR.
I was pushing our party to do something similar in 1996 because I recognized back then that the same dynamics that allowed Obama to succeed could have been made to work for us. We should have done it first.
I am so sorry.. I have never posted a thread before. I watched the video on What Really Happened.com and was shaken to my bones.
If someone could assist with a proper link...
Am I supposed to ignore, mistrust, or debase the thoughts of Chris Hedges? The lines between left and right have been erased... there is only the manufactured blob... that is Washington, Salon, The National Review, MSNBC and Fox.
who knows who the good guys are anymore... nobody is on my side
Obama is only a symptom of the disease.
Say, do you know the secret code?
Sounds like buyer’s remorse. A Lib disappointed that he bit on slick packaging and The One failed to deliver on his dreams for Socialist Utopia.
You didn’t watch it. AGAIN branding triumphs over substance.
If this guy is a self admitted liberal, nobody wants to hear what he says.
This conversation could have been with Pat Buchanan... my favorite human.
Exactly right. As George Will so eloquently noted; (and I paraphrase) Our problem is not that we have a fool in office... it's that we have an electorate which would have elected such a fool.
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Buchanan?
LOL.
Hedges is right about 2008 being a triumph of advertising and media manipulation. But is there really anything new about that? You'd have to have expected something more from Obama to be that disappointed, and I don't think many of us did.
Chris Hedges is a 3/4 decent journalist.
At least he “gets it” much more than most journalists. He sees bigger pictures.
He is right about style over substance.
Where he gets is wrong is he doesn’t acknowledge that there are people in the country who are aware of this and have been aware of this for a long long time. He doesn’t acknowledge that there are sincere people (on the right) who have legitimate criticisms of “progressive” politics.
Granted the left/right paradigm is not really valid, and I think Hedges gets that, but again he’s not really willing to go all the way and acknowledge that “the way things should be” is utopian on both sides.
I think anybody who pays attention realizes that the Left/Right dynamic in Washington has mostly become a manufactured conflict with each side using the other side as the boogeyman to justified the need for their voters to keep them in power, and then mostly use the power to benefit themselves. Occasionally they will get a thing or two done for their side, just to show that they are still “fighting for you”, but neither side is interested in actually winning because winning will make themselves no longer necessary.
Elections are entertainment now, like the NFL playoffs, it doesn’t matter who wins, the winning side will feel good for about 5 minutes, and then we start all over again next season, and nothing is really accomplished.
If you’re a true believe conservative, or a true believer leftist, you see what’s going on.
Hedges is a far-left, America-hating jerk who can’t be taken seriously as an authority on anything. He was the clown booed off the podium while giving an anti-American rant during a graduation ceremony at an Illinois college about ten years ago.
That's it...Hedges is only sorry that Dear Leader wasn't a black Stalin.
He is either a fool or just one more evil Marxist. We know our government is corrupt. Hedges, like Van Jones or a host of other hard-line Leftists, thinks the solution is MORE Marxism, not less.
Believe me, this evil man would be all in favor of one-world government just like the elitists he decries.
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