There is no reasoning with them...

[Hortensis]

30. Many have found there's no reasoning with Chris Hedges, a serial

plagiarist whose increasing extremism and its attendant dishonesty, irrationality, and destruction of intellectual verity over the past couple decades means that all of his impressive credentials are in the past. Way in the past.

I once soaked up his title "Christian Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America," a phenomenon I was observing myself, but couldn't read more than a few chapters. It's not that there's no point to be searched out in it, but I did not recognize real people I knew in his ugly one-dimensional portrayals. They were so extremely warped, intolerant and mean, that I actually ended up feeling indignant for someone I suspected in another life would call the Gestapo on my husband. That's pretty bad.

Every time I see his name these days I despise him for his dreadful soul-killing influence on those who've kept him alive and prosperous, those drawn to his "politics of cultural despair" that he himself decries as "killing us" while feeding the already sickened market for more despair.

For what he's done to degrade the understanding of the electorate. Speaking of which, let's remember that, like other admired gurus of that dystopian crowd, after he personally destroyed his career as a real journalist he is still welcome on RT, where he hosts a weekly program and is frequently quoted by professional propagandists. Russian state TV is one of the planet's biggest disseminators of toxic disinformation and other forms of weaponized mindfucking for the Kremlin. The purpose: to destroy other nations.