Riz Khan - Naomi Wolf - 16 Sep 08 - Part 2

Is US democracy under threat from within? Third-wave feminist and author of the best selling Beauty Myth not only believes the US is dangerously looking down the path of fascism but in her latest book Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries she argues that Americans should become "democratic commandos".

Among her many suggestions: Amend the US Constitution to permit national referendums on issues such as whether or not to keep troops in Iraq.

But can that form of democracy really work? And is that type of individual activism realistic in a complex multi-cultural society?

On Tuesday's Riz Khan we ask controversial author, activist and feminist Naomi Wolf about the future of America and whether or not its everyday citizens can make a difference.

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[brotherdke]

Naomi wolf sounds good but Obama=Clinton=McCain. I hoped Ron Paul would run, but any third party candidate would be a world better.

[smokersRgreat]

for as smart as she is she sure dont know shit about politics. both sides have sold us out long ago. they all suck, they should all be in prison, obango is a bigger lier, than the last lier, and on and on it goes. throw them all in prison, and lets get back to the basic's of the constitution. Amen.

[SkullOfYorick]

Naomi Wolf is intelligent, pretty, a good speaker and writer, and seems to have a really pleasant and sincere personality too. Unfortunately, she was far too trusting of the Democratic Party. Despite Obama's and Biden's own histories, and the history of the Democratic Party's servitude to the same corporate interests that the Republican Party has served, she endorsed the Democrats, when she could have endorsed a principled defender of liberty like Ron Paul or Ralph Nader.

[VanMedia]

@smokersRgreat you try to sound smart but you can't even spell Liar correctly.....yea let's trust you, mr. genius

[scientific1982]

@madelefant05 Yeah there probably is an element of that in it. But the facts that she presented are very worrying.

[DG3744]

@74veracruz What the heck are you talkin about? That is impossible!! STFU!  U sound crazy!

[madelefant05]

Naomi Wolf is full of it. And I consider myself very left. She's just a vain intellectual.

[ofcoursehesthefarmer]

@cheapy2006 _Sexy - yes. Clever, most emphatically no. She's just repeating the kind of tired pseudo-liberal cant that one is accustomed to hearing from this sector of the media.

[cheapy2006]

sexy AND clever!!! i'm in love



[frankystein12]

I always knew that governments don't always tell the truth and often have agendas that seem shady and corrupt. However, this video was truly an eye-opener in the sense that the extent that the world is becoming more and more corporate is simply astonishing and frightening.