Naomi Wolf on Democracy Now! 1 of 2

[bill0756]

Maybe Naomi Wolf can talk to her Jewish compatriots and tell them to stop being a major force in supporting the nondemocratic neocons she's talking about.

[bonfirejovi]

Amy Goodman looks like shit.

[FamilyGuyRocks89]

Amy Goodman = FUGLY

Naomi Wolf = hot

[glorp896]

amy is so plain dull and dreary, doesn't add much spunk or enthusiasm to being a hard core lefty

[flyboymd82]

What do these dumb cunts think of Obama??

We've lost more rights & have been put in bankruptcy in 4 months by the American imposter.

[harbinger79]

The fact that you obviously don't know the bona fides of either of these women should give you pause to cause anyone dumb. If a goober like you were to, I don't know, actually read Ms. Wolf's book you would understand that the phenomena she speaks about have nothing to do with partisan politics. You, however, show yourself to see things through that prism. I would challenge the idea that we have lost more rights under Obama than Bush. Patriot act anyone? But, under Obama we won't get them back.

[eugjoh]

Damn! Naomi is hot!

[glorp896]

never mind the history and political implications and broad sweeping social commentary, she is hot! (actually i think she is too nasally, i can see too deeply down her nostrils.

our founders were no friends of democracy, but are heralded as such - and we really don't have a democracy - i don't want to be ruled by the average myself, but when one vote for senator in montana is over 30 times more powerful than a vote for a senator in california things are out of whack, like the electoral college

[paulzonkey]

Can't help but notice that this Wolf is a fox. What a contrast.  Of course she's a hyperventilating wack job but what a looker.

[harbinger79]

How is she a whack job? You do know then histories of how Fascism came into existence right? I would guess not.

[paulzonkey]

How is she a whack job? I've rewatched this little clip and I'd love to count the ways but I don't have time and it's unnecessary. Yes I do know the history of how facism came into existence. The facist parties were far left wing socialist organizations. Just boil it down like this: Liberty and the sovereignty of the individual over the collective. Remember the centralization of power is a prerequisite for the existence of facism. Keep an eye on who wants to centralize and you'll be OK.

[harbinger79]

that's a dodge. you have the time to pull an insult out of your ass, but not the time to back it up. gotcha...actually italian fascism was started by Mussolini to oppose International Socialism after he quit working for a Socialist newspaper. It was defined by its mixture of ultra-nationalism and hatred for the Left. Spanish fascism destroyed an anarchistic decentralized model of society in Spain. To call it a Left Socialist movement is just fucking idiotic.

[paulzonkey]

@harbinger79 

[paulzonkey]

You might want to do a little more research. Mussolini was born a socialist. He was named after famous socialists and anarchists. Politics is not a horizontal line ya twit. Nationalism + Socialism = Mussolini and Hitler. Get it. It's not that tough. Like I said before, ' just watch out who wants to centalize power'. Who wants you to give up your sovereignty and liberty for the collective good? Vote accordingly. It's that simple. You're confused. You can fix that. C'mon.

[glorp896]

certainly a wide sweeping confluence of stories and happenings posing as some worrisome trend according to wolf. she is another scare monger like glen beck, etc

fear mongering compounds the issue, i don't say do nothing but often the seemingly GOOD reaction to reactionaries is its own extreme evil... fight fire with fire? Machiavelli time? I don't know what is always wise, but if everybody were apathetic and didn't care, then we wouldn't have dictators or any leaders, rather a peaceful anarchy

[xXTreizeXx]

i dont understand WHY she endorses Obama, who RENEWED the patriot act, voted FOR the FISA bill and TELECOM IMMUNITY, and has FREE SPEECH ZONES at his public speeches...

[glorp896]

good points

[djgiga]

wow i didn't know there was an assassination attempt on plame!

[deeliciousplum]

wow...this is a wonderful interview and places a strong voice into the living spaces of us who can use voices such as Naomi's to stir us from our culture and consciousness deprived sleeps.

[TheSearchForTheLight]

THAT´s what I always keep telling to the people I meet.

In our german tv there are many documentaries where you can learn how the tyrrany began.

Hopefully many americans pay attention, to what she has to say on this subject.

It can happen anywhere and again!

Freedom & Peace

[AiresQX4]

Our founding fathers were very specific to not make America a Democracy but a Republic!! Theres many good reasons why and I think were seeing it now!!

[Juskho]

I would give praise to God on the Day America became a facist society.

[harbinger79]

Enjoy the cattle car dipshit.

[NeedlessRufus]

Hmm. I'd tap that!

[djnross]

...it's a tiny bit unnerving to watch my personal Athena hatch ,cobble,and paste increments of conspiracy theory into this papier mache' billingsgate,especially since I always assigned Paglia a 'black hat' for truculently dubbing Naomi:'Little Miss Pravda'...America is VERY fixable.

[djnross]

Read historian Niall Ferguson:we are currently an Empire that used to be a proud Republic.Naomi is a highly erudite compiler of historical fact.But the manner with which she sometimes draws parallels between political orders condign with totalitarian fiat and U.S.A which history imbued with cautionary contretemps against such aggression,teeters on non sequiter alarmism if not faulty logic.

[glorp896]

non sequiter alarmism... i notice her delivery of compounding many situations doesn't merit jumping from one to the other without more treatment... a wide swath sweeping together of selective evidence easily all countervailed and counter balanced with many other movements, happenings and as i say above situations...

ALL IS FLUX, we don't know where we are headed, like predicting the stock market, good luck

man is more whimsical and easily changed than i think we like to think - i'm eclectic

[sunethra]

This woman is an idiot. Stupidity at its best. America is a strong democracy. ONe has to fear people such as this who sell 'fear mongering'

[tpwatson]

Who is more dangerous, the current administrations tactics of "fear mongering" or her vantage point in which she is writing to emphasize the importance to question and consider various aspects taking shape you "should" care about and be aware of.

[JRBeaman]

Explaining the disaster that a Democracy can become, Karl Marx, known as the 'Father of Communism' and himself a student of political science, stated: 'Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury and bankrupt the nation.'

Democracy is two ravenous wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for breakfast.

[UDraftDogr4Q]

Great Video, finally a peek at real history. The truth. thank you for posting this vid.

[glorp896]

we will probably never have REAL history or the truth, just many perceptions and points of view that are exclusively each of our own "reality tunnels" based on our individual experience, etc...

the truth can be dumbed down to hard facts, indisputable, but then it really says nothing of consequence... history, truth and reality rely on INTERPRETATION, a subjective game... the most objective model i've found for human behavior is biological determinism - mammalian territoriality

[earthlingus]

The problem is there really are "sleeper cells" and these sleeper cells really do kill people. Are the western peoples allowed to defend themselves? And speak about would be dictator.. Amy Goodman anyone?

[FreedomofSpeech911]

you watch too much "Fox News"

[UnpocodeSangre]

the book she wrote is just balony. if she were right and usa will become fascist people like she, alex jones and the loose change fags would never have the chance of talkin their crap all over the media! she wants to get money from the whole part of the society who doesnt like bush and is misguided by such money driven people.

[freebob3]

She's correct, however! Congress is equally complicit!!! Check the records of your legislator.