Chris Hedges: Barack Obama is a "tool of the corporate state"

i'll tell ya something... i have zero desire to put up posts like this... there is a large part of me that strongly resists wrapping my mind around the thoughts expressed by chris hedges in this article and i would desperately like to see him proven wrong... in the meantime, however, i have to be true to my sense of the reality of what's going on... as much comfort as there can be in denial, i've come to recognize it for the toxic place it is...

The right-wing accusations against Barack Obama are true. He is a socialist, although he practices socialism for corporations. He is squandering the country’s future with deficits that can never be repaid. He has retained and even bolstered our surveillance state to spy on Americans. He is forcing us to buy into a health care system that will enrich corporations and expand the abuse of our for-profit medical care. He will not stanch unemployment. He will not end our wars. He will not rebuild the nation. He is a tool of the corporate state.

The right wing is not wrong. It is not the problem. We are the problem. If we do not tap into the justifiable anger sweeping across the nation, if we do not militantly push back against corporate fraud and imperial wars that we cannot win or afford, the political vacuum we have created will be filled with right-wing lunatics and proto-fascists. The goons will inherit power not because they are astute, but because we are weak and inept.

yeah, well, ok chris... i'm properly shamed... now what...?

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