Chris Hedges is my new intellectual hero
I’m reading this really energizing and scary book right now: American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by seminary-educated former New York Times foreign correspondent, Chris Hedges. And Wow!! I’m not normally given to conspiracy theories (actually, I kind of am…) but I’ve got to believe what he describes.
Here is an article at Theocracywatch.org that gives you the general spooky overview, from which I pull this quote:
[George W.] Bush may turn out to be a transition figure, our version of Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck used “values” to energize his base at the end of the 19th century and launched “Kulturkampt,” the word from which we get “culture wars,” against Catholics and Jews. Bismarck ’s attacks split the country, made the discrediting of whole segments of the society an acceptable part of the civil discourse and paved the way for the more virulent racism of the Nazis. This, I suspect, will be George Bush’s contribution to our democracy.
HUH! right? Makes you think! Here’s something way more recent too, a Chris Hedges interview in Salon.com, which I’m working on reading before work is out today.
