Chris Hedges: "AMERICAN FASCISTS" The Christian Right vs USA

YES! I did put Nobel instead of Pulitzer. I promise not to post vids in the wee morning hours if those of you that get SOO excited about minutia all make yourselves a HUGE Javex n Orange Juice and slam it. This is an interview on CBC's "THE HOUR" last week with author Chris Hedges. It obviously goes into a lot more detail than the clip from the Colbert Report.
Very scary, very prescient, check this out.
Hedges examines the growing right-wing fundamentalist movement in America and argues that it resembles the early fascist, cult-like movements of Germany and Italy in the 1920's and 30's.

Check out this story on the CEO of Religion, Pat Robertson:

Threatened to KILL a man and his family.

Sounds like a GEN-U-WINE Christian.
Not...

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/09/pat-robertson-threatens-life-of-plai...

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[GregGumbel]

Chris Hedges is a superstitious, anti-West moron. The religious right is the least of anyone's problem.

[ROOKTABULA]

@GregGumbel

Yup.

Tell that to everyone who suffered thru 8 years of Bible Thumping Bush.

That'd be 98% of the planet in one way or another.

I'm not sure how you came up with anti-west but I'm assuming you equate the Christianity cult with "western" culture.

[pawndominance1]

isnt Fascism just when the Government becomes run by companies or corporations?

[ROOKTABULA]

@pawndominance1

Google.

Try it.

Amazing way to learn stuff.

[pawndominance1]

@ROOKTABULA thanks yeah i tried it yesterday, it helps a lot

[ROOKTABULA]

@pawndominance1

Yup!

>;P

[ROOKTABULA]

@candiceevans1

I usually ignore such misinformed, dogmatic, CLEARLY deluded, tripe but since Beck et al have SO damaged your perception, I thought I'd take some time to educate you/try to salvage any grasp on reality his type may have left in you.

Liberalism and Communalism are left of center. Fascism-sorry to tell you- is a far right ideology.Just cuz Hitler called it Socialist doesn't make it so.

The KKK was in fact started out as a HARD anti-Commie(left) group of Christians. Sorry.

[vladdrac88]

I wish you guy's would find some other name for "The Christian Right". The "Christian Right" is not "Christian" at all. I hear some buzz about the "Richard Mellon Scaife" foundation being a great supporter of some pseudo Christian cults. Apparently translating "The Bible" into every language was done as much for the benefit of US Intelligence as it was for spreading "Christianity". I hear you guy's saying what I'm thinking. :)

[NiceHandTick]

Facism = Fox Propaganda Media

[saburius]

75% of this country are Christians. Almost 50% of our entire population are creationists. This makes the United States the largest loony bin on the planet -- the 8th wonder of the world you can see from space.

Fundamentalist Christians are the greatest destructive force to this nation.

[symboy]

@TheChineseEmpire The classic european fascist states (such as Germany and Italy) did have alliances with corporate oligarchies in their states - particularly the military industrial corporations.

[bizakis9]

Thank you for posting this video... I am posting on my Facebook page..

[Trickishismael360]

@pawndominance1 It's one part. But that's mostly economics. Fascism is primarily political.

[queenfoursuited]

The fascism in the right is the result of a group (dominionists) who have abandoned the objective authority of Scripture in favor of more liberal and subjective religious practices and experiences. They may use Scripture here and there to substantiate what they are doing, but never is it consistent with what the actual context of Scripture is teaching. Furthermore, the leftist Christian movement of the "Emergent Church" is based on much of the exact same fascist ideas as those on the right.

[BigBeaudeLindeau]

It's obvious that creationism is being used to block/interfere with the teaching of evolution. Can't you teach creationism in like three sunday school sessions? THere isn't much to it. Isn't it just the first few pages of the Bible? You don't need to base any part of a serious biology class around it. Evolution takes more time to teach because there is a lot of evidence to exmaine from different biological kingdoms, and many different environmental factors to consider.

[bboardnbowls]

What is truth ?

How do Christian try and usher in a utopia?

[dancinkindofguy]

@ROOKTABULA "The KKK was in fact started out as a HARD anti-Commie(left) group of Christians" Yes, Nathan Bedford Forrest and his ex Confederate cronies must have read some of Karl Marx's writings that had just been written and were aghast; or maybe they looked into their crystal balls and were able to see 52 years into the future at Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and the rest of the Bolsheviks wreaking havoc in Russia, so they started the KKK.