Reddit reviews Death of the Liberal Class

Noam Chomsky is the author of Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order, What Uncle Sam Really Wants, and countless others.

Naomi Wolf is the author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, and others.

Chris Hedges is the author of "Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You", The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress, Death of the Liberal Class, and others

Daniel Ellsberg @ http://www.ellsberg.net/articles

Cornel West @ http://www.cornelwest.com/

Birgitta Jónsdóttir's website & twitter

Alexa O'Brien's website & twitter

Kai Wargalla's twitter account.

Tangerine Bolen @ RevolutionTruth; website & twitter

It's refreshing to see younger adults resonate with Chris Hedges. He is one of the last true journalists of this country, and one of the few individuals from the press to openly speak out against the war in Iraq during the Bush administration.

He's one of the few individuals I consider my hero living today. Read his books, "Death of the Liberal Class" and "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt", because he paints an accurate picture at the problems we face today: division of the middle class, the profiteers of corporations, the rape and pillage of our ecosystem. It's extremely sad to read and it will make you angry because only then will you truly understand at how backwards American society has become. If anyone is interested to learn more, watch this interview he was in with Bill Moyers. He single-handedly taught me not only to be an objective reader and investigator, but how to debate using facts and sources instead of ad-hominems and logical fallacies, what a true journalist should be in my opinion.

The phrase, "ignorance is bliss" rings so true after reading these books for me, because it opened my eyes up to the greed and willingness of corporations to seek profit over human life. It was difficult for me to process at first because I was never aware of so many things he mentions in these books, I didn't want to believe they were true. The thought of Americans cities as disaster zones, or 3rd world countries, but also how easily they engineered this system of propaganda to an already apathetic and ignorant country upset me not because I was offended, but that it was painfully true. The overall narrative of his language is that very principle of Capitalism itself is to consume all the resources for the maximization profit until it will ultimately consume itself... and he hammers it home brilliantly.

Hell: PM me and I'll buy you a digital copy of these books myself, that is how powerful and impacting they are to me.

Edit: This also an open invitation for anyone else who wants to read these books. My Xmas gift to you guys...

Hedges is right. The left was neutered by red scares. We have no societal counterbalance to fascist tendencies. The far right turn in society should give pause.

Play Sekiro while listening to a audiobook of Death of the Liberal Class. Watch a few episodes of Deadwood after dinner.

Firstly, if you look at income quintile growth in the 1980's, everyone was basically flat or falling behind but the top 20%. If the middle class did better under Reagan, it was because of deficit-financed tax cuts and more women going to work out of economic necessity.

What we have in this country are a corporate conservative party (Democrats) and a radical theocratic conservative party (Republicans). People in this country don't even know what progressivism is anymore, because establishment liberals sabotaged radical leftists. Elizabeth Warren is the closest thing we have to a nationally viable progressive politician in this country, and even she's not talking about things like a guaranteed minimum income, which was last put forth by Richard Nixon. Yes, if Richard Nixon were a politician today, he would be considered too liberal for the Democratic Party.

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges/dp/1568586795

I'll check it out. This one, right? https://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges/dp/1568586795/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Death+of+the+Liberal+Class&qid=1571164612&sr=8-1

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Forgive the use of Amazon, it was the first search result.

You're welcome. If your looking to dive further down the rabbit hole, I'd recommend reading Death of the Liberal Class (2010) by Chris Hedges. It focuses on how we ended up with a political climate that presented the opportunity for some one like Trump and his cohorts to seize power.

From the promo:

> For decades the liberal class was a defense against the worst excesses of power. But the pillars of the liberal class— the press, universities, the labor movement, the Democratic Party, and liberal religious institutions—have collapsed. In its absence, the poor, the working class, and even the middle class no longer have a champion.

They think that they do now, and his name is Donald Trump.

Here's a video of him giving a lecture on the books topic.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges-x/dp/1568586795

>Daily Caller

Shitty site. Wanna prove each fact incorrect though

Noted liberal writer Chris Hedges has written a book about the very topic

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges/dp/1568586795

>And how a majority of Democrats continue to support civil liberties issues in Congress as evidenced earlier. Nobody is making the argument that ALL Democrats are civil liberties champions.

That's what you seem to be insinuating. I believe that the progressives like Alan Grayson and Jared Polis have done admirable work, but shits like the President deserve equal blame as the Republicans who have blocked civil liberties.

>Substantial - NOT MAJORITY. That's the BIG difference between the parties which you keep ignoring.

Some Republicans have opposed the measures too. The numbers are not too different.

Again, a better example of the difference would be health care, where nearly every Democrat voted for it, and every Republican against.

>And I countered it, nice spin but doesn't change the fact that Greenwald supported the invasion.

Again not even true. Greenwald was not even writing professionally at the time of the invasion.

>When did I say this at all? Can you even read?
Notice how you ignored the Ron Paul question that I posed?

Ron Paul was wrong to vote for the authorization. So was every other representative. Ok? I disagree with about 80% of what the guy says. I'm no fan of his.

And the Patriot Act? In the initial passage, both parties enthusiastically supported it. They introduced a totalitarian measure to capitalize on the fears of Americans. That's wrong.


But if you think Obama is anti-war you are stupid.

>Right, the issues that ACLU lists as civil liberties and defends them as such are not civil liberties but trivialities because the reactionaries who only read op-ed pieces from hacks don't even know that there are other civil liberty issues beyond surveillance.

Democrats are good on social issues (call them civil liberties if you like) like gay marriage and abortion. Shitty on surveillance issues like the Patriot Act and FISA

>I don’t support or trust the liberals or NDP…and I can no longer support the conservatives…
So green?

Take a break from politics, you're not going to change a sizable chunk of the populations views. Do some more reading, your vote is a drop in the bucket. You're starting to realize that politics is largely a sham because big business owns the place.

I'd advise you to pickup some books:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)

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http://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges/dp/1568586795


Now these books aren't perfect but they are a good jumping off point

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

These are good too if you want to understand how the US swung to the far right.

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges/dp/1568586795

http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Hands-Businessmens-Crusade-Against/dp/0393337669/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410918334&sr=1-1&keywords=invisible+hands+the+businessmen%27s+crusade+against+the+new+deal