Chris Hedges - American Republic IS DEAD

[Lil Liberal Laura]

Reupped Jun 14, 2022 (Original Upload Date Unknown)

On the other hand, summer's just a few days away!

[gab13by13]

1. Maybe Hedges shouldn't have backed Jill Stein in 2016?

[emulatorloo]

8. +1. He bears responsibility for this, but he'll never own up to it

Nor will the ‘left’ twitter influencers who encouraged sitting home or voting third party

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Not watching a vid with a defeatist title like that which Putin would cheer. No summary by OP either

[sop]

3. Hedges' views and writings are always poorly received here.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. +1

IN my mind he goes along with Greenwald, Martensen. Sort of libertarians who appear to be part of the fringe left.

[sop]

5. Hedges is a gifted and persuasive writer, his moral views are based on true christian beliefs,

but he's wandered way too far to the left for most people on this site.

[gab13by13]

6. Lol, you can say that again,

John Fetterman is too far to the left for many people on this site.

[emulatorloo]

9. In otherwords he's a very eloquent doomer. Yay.

[Lil Liberal Laura]

10. Okay

Thank you for the heads-up!

[Walleye]

7. I couldn't listen to the whole thing, did he say what he plans to do about any of it?

These long eloquent rants aren’t getting us anywhere

[harumph]

11. He's an idealist and there's a place for him.

That said, he doesn't offer any concrete
suggestions on how to fix it. IMO, the only way to fix it is to engage young people who don't
let the 'perfect' be the enemy of the good. We must be realistic, determined and
play the long game - which the corporate right is so adept at. Any democrat is
better than any republican. Walk, crawl or hitchhike to vote in every election local, state and federal.
GOTV.

[sop]

12. Exactly right.

[emulatorloo]

13. Thanks for your post. The lack of pragmatism is the fatal flaw of many of these internet idealists.

A real shame.

[jaxexpat]

14. "...he doesn't offer any concrete suggestions on how to fix it."

That's because he doesn't know how to do anything but complain, somewhat eloquently.