When theocracy meets plutocracy

[drownedinink]

I'm reading Chris Hedges' America's Fascists, which does often read like Stephen King for politically conscious progressives, but which I prefer to think of as a genuine cry of anguish from the perspective of an American and a Christian seeing the values of both identities being perverted. Here's probably the "money shot" of the book:

This is the

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[mossymonkey]

I only wish it were, as Hedges contends, new--in many ways it's exactly the ethos that Jesus got all upset about, except that in his time, the corrupted faith was Judaism.

The problem is the institutionalization of power and class and the inevitable consequences. Our system of government is perhaps one of the best designs to fight this, but our attitudes as a people are not so oriented. Maybe we need to suffer more. I just don't want to be part of that if so.

[anne_jumps]

America once attempted to pull workers abroad up to American levels, to foster the building of foreign labor unions, to challenge the abuse of workers in factories that flood the American market with cheap goods.

Indeed.

[nitasee]

I read this book - what last year - and found it had many good comments like that. But you're right, that is the "money shot" of the book.