Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’?
BY CHRIS HEDGES The Democrats and their liberal apologists are so oblivious to the profound personal and economic despair sweeping through this country that they think offering unemployed people the right to keep their unemployed children on their nonexistent health care policies is a step forward. They think that passing a jobs bill that will give tax credits to corporations is a rational response to an unemployment rate that is, in real terms, close to 20 percent. They think that making ordinary Americans, one in eight of whom depends on food stamps to eat, fork over trillions in taxpayer dollars to pay for the crimes of Wall Street and war is acceptable. IMAGE: Facile speechifying rightwing bimbos like Sarah Palin are the tip of the propaganda spear in the establishment’s arsenal to derail real change.
