Chris Hedges on inequality in the United States - Audio Fix

[@Righteous628]

Chris Hedges is an incredible orator and scholar. This is probably his most prescient and scathing speech about the state the USA is in.If only I had the ability to put this speech on every television in America. I can't believe this speech is 4yrs old. It is still 1000% accurate. Hedges is a brilliant man.

[@Bisquick]

Agree wholeheartedly with everything, _except_ I just happened to see this other -speech- sermon by him last night and I think it's even more scathing (some borrowed segments from this) and, to be blunt, _properly fucking so_ : kzbin.info/www/bejne/raXMlJmQmL6dm7M But yeah, I uh..."enjoy"...(seems like the wrong word lol but I think you get it) going back in time to see how inevitably accurate all the predictions made are. We're truly screwed unless we get it together and like yesterday. No idea what that means of course and there inlies the problem but I think in the choice of "socialism or barbarism", the path of barbarism has been selected already, and not by us... This is a prediction I hope to be incredibly wrong about of course. Let's make it wrong! 🌹 _I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different._ _I am finally ready to stop this insanity._ _Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well._ _The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need._ _The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed_ - Joe Stack (Cesna IRS guy Chris mentions briefly - looked him up and found this appropriate)

[@Livoirienyvoitrien]

Know what? It is for people like him that I cannot hate America. I am German, I have no lecture to read to anybody, but that's not the point: The people in Chris' crosshair are actually about to desinfect this planet of all life and turning it into a flaming smoking burning ball of shit, as George The Great put it. And sometimes I wonder whether it isn't exactly that what they want. They seem to be so obsessed with harmageddon it seems the can't wait until it all shoots up in flames. We have to fight them, whatever the cost may be.

[@johnjorgensen4488]

the US military is dragging our country into the ditch . I wish I had Chris's oratory skills , better yet the tools to shut down 800 overseas military bases . A pentagon saturated with zionists .

[@martinko4086]

@@johnjorgensen4488 I would NOT blame US military, since they are really needed in today world sliding to LOOSING proposition of socialist economy . Honestly, i do not trust " our allies " like Germany , UK , France , Italy ..etc they are constantly attacking US politics and US system , while they do not have anything better .They are NOT paying their fair share of 2 % of GDP to NATO . We the USA are paying for theirs security and we are paying for cleaning other countries MESS !! WHY ?? We have some major problems inside of USA, like growing homeless drug addicts population , ILLEGAL immigration, entitled new generation expecting to get free stuff , attack on freedom of speech , growing size of government with uncontrol spending of taxpayers money . and using scare tactics to increase taxation of working people and especially hard working rich . IF you want equality , start with equal taxation like 10 % for everybody .

[@SaundraRaynor]

He would make a great president.

[@nancybacheldar7933]

I am Canadian and am definitely a follower of Chris Hedges. Most intelligent man I’ve ever heard .

[@DavidMoore-yl8rl]

He’s great. He and Chomsky are like my 2 fathers, big influences on my belief system. Have read almost everything both have written. The masses just have no clue what is really happening in our world.

[@martinko4086]

@@DavidMoore-yl8rl That is what i called DOUBLE brainwash on you . if you will add Michael MOORE to your group , you will get three some socialist, who NEVER lived in real socialism ., but they are putting down capitalism , like they already have something "better " to replace it .

[@LawFirm1970]

I agree

[@JeepCherokeeful]

Really? Spoiler, he’s not very intelligent, you’d better listen to a few others to better understand the world you live in! He has some good points but some some are awful and contradictory. The belief that reparations would fix anything is absurd, for example. My family didn’t even live in America during the slavery era. As did tens of millions of others

[@compassioncampaigner728]

@@martinko4086 See how Martin gives himself a "like"? Too, this is the disappointing quality of the Martins. They can't process that the capitalism they slobbetingky embrace is....just for them - not the rich. Raytheon...Bezos....Grumman...Health Ins interests....Pentagon contractors are all giggling at Martin because they have socialism while he pays their taxes for them. Capitalism for the little guy...socialism for the rich is the preferred format and Big Money will fight savagely to keep people loving capitalism, hating socislism, and remaining ignorant of the fact that the little guy pulls the weight financially and the corporations get to coast.

[@garyhughes7518]

Free Julian Assange

[@MayorSom]

Mission Accomplished

[@kcuzz4091]

Extremely interesting to listen to Chris’ speech in 2021 as we all witness the former president’s slow motion coup d’etat. Chris was so right.

[@EvolutionWendy]

January 2023 he's still right, Chris Hedges, Truthsayer

[@CrucialSpeaks]

Thank you for your intelligence and sharing it Chris!

[@allenporter47]

what a joke ! just rambling

[@classicalgreekdance]

Brilliant speaker, thinker and human being! Thank you for your courage!

[@paulinebyrne7799]

Chris Hedges, you are my hero. I love everything you do to help us realize the lie we are living. Your stories of people you help are heart wrenching. TG for you

[@judithalltop3953]

We need MORE people llike Chris Hedges!! I will stand with Chris, or others like him when the time comes.

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

but but... socialists, communists, anarchists, syndicalists are all so so so scary they say

[@garrettchristensen8074]

Mr. Hedges is a brilliant and deeply caring man who refuses to stand down. He rarely mentions that he's also a boxer and it shows every time I see him speak out. Such a great fighter.

[@kirbycollins3223]

Chris Hedges is a Modern Day Prophet

[@p8entlyobvious383]

Yeah . But Obama was not deepstate. Republicans are more dictatorial deepstate in the sense if privacy

[@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl]

And he gives a shit if true.

[@p8entlyobvious383]

Yeah . Prophet of doom . But true .although .I doubt Chris's or Ghandis peaceful methods would be effective against a Hitler.

[@subscriber77]

It's high time the USA remembered its progressive roots and had a revolution like the one that gave birth to the nation.

[@ngonea]

Russ Tul - Planning another display of babarism on the N American continent, genocide and enslavement?

[@tchirn]

The American Revolution was not a progressive one, whew!

[@milantomich6568]

But I notice people there don't understand how serious and real this is what he talk.

[@henrygarciga]

Canada merely has become a passive observer , not nearly subjected to the constant onslaught of pre-planned killings , shootings, the FBI trained & schooled terrorists , many which are mentally diminished individuals, and on and on . Events that most people can't begin to believe governments would allow and plan to further political agendas. School shootings, for example, have evolved since Sandy Hook was pushed upon America , with unquestioning complicity by major media , as a real event which it wasn't by any stretch of logical observation . Clearly it was a drill that introduced local authoritarianism to use the power of mass deception that shut out criticism and scrutiny that would dare to question this event . Yet it obviously was just a drill with hired actors . Wolfgang Halbig asked all the right questions that threatened to expose this massive lie that his family was threatened if he didn't stop. There are many people threatened with the loss of careers if they step out of line , which is why Paul Preston came out to confront the truth since he was already retired. A former Superintendent of LAUSD cannot be easily dismissed. The Las Vegas shooting of Oct. 1 is another massive cover-up that saw a Saudi assassination attempt turn to massive failure and also included fake dead counts . That the media coverage claims this to be the largest mass shooting in history, didn't even get mentioned on the last 2 anniversaries. Where are the victim interviews, or lawsuits ? Go try and find one Sandy Hook lawsuit ? The White Helmets win documentary awards---totally fake . This is a tragic symptom of a populace that has surrendered inquiry and failed to demand answers to basic questions .

[@vladimir0700]

I think that we’ve reached a point in human history where the issues we face are so many and so complex that the average person just can’t deal with it anymore. Also, there’s very little, if anything, that the individual can do to change anything. Corporations in conjunction with governments make ALL the decisions that matter Also, I should say that I don’t know why Hedges is giving this speech in Canada. Canada is not a leader but a follower, mostly of the U S and is, therefore, of no real significance on the world stage

[@krvera01]

We should be yelling this from the rooftops!!!!

[@milantomich6568]

@Rob Kennedy Everyone who lives knows how this world operate just many thinks they will benefit ,so who cares.

[@chrisrichardson8881]

If you keep voting the way you are, the more the voters are complicit with the imperialism of the government, the government that puts sanctions on other countries, killing thousands, and forcing millions out of their homes and countries to become refugees that over run other countries, and that come to our borders so we can abuse them again. We are the aggressors here. How many Venezuelan Bombers or Syrian Bomber are over our heads? How many Iranian gun boats are off of our shores and threatening our ports? The answer is zero. But we are in their air space and off o their ports and restricting their ability to trade with other countries. We are the ones in their faces waiting for them to make a move to protect themselves so that we can blaster them for no other reason than they want the resources of these countries. Want the progressive promises fulfilled? vote for the Green Party and its platform to support the people. With the DNC we have Corporate Socialism, and rugged individualism for all of the rest of us as we have lost our jobs, lost our health insurance and finally loosing their homes all due to COVID-19. Please take a look at the Green Party and Howie Hawkins, the Green Party Candidate you have never heard of because of a biased media that supports only the duopoly of two parties. See www.gp.org and see how it matches with your beliefs.

[@nancybacheldar7933]

Chris Hedges you are an amazing man . Thank you for what you do.

[@SuperPenguin5495]

lol when he said "can you imagine if trump became president" HELLO 2020!!!

[@tombradburn3935]

2016

[@meeppeep4113]

That's because the alternativ was worse. US is a shit country.

[@ianwoodywoodwoof345]

Wow... Chris Hedges is one of the greatest speakers of our age. You moved me to tears... again Mr. Long may your prescient truth be heard.

[@markherron6374]

Chris is a person that opens your head up and pours in sunlight........

[@TheBarrwen]

Glads hedges made the connection between Trudeau and Obama. I said that right off the bat.

[@bobsmith9719]

Trudeau is the Obama of Canada. Obama's popularity dropped like a rock once people saw who he really was. Same thing is happening for Trudeau. But Trudeau was so arrogant he wanted another election.

[@LawFirm1970]

Chris is an inspiration

[@umeshbhattarai2992]

Excellent Speech-❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@bigdog44pc]

The American prison system is not at all interested in Rehabilitation but simply slave labor. You'll understand what I mean if you look up and read the entire 13th Amendment to the American Constitution.

[@rosebiceps]

23,000 views?! Yes We deify The Military in America!! And the Intel Agency’s. Thank you for a rare speech on Reality in slum America

[@bicyclist2]

It's 26,989 now.

[@annemadgett5197]

33k now.

[@CarolPrice4p]

Excellent talk from Chris Hedges. The content is so huge and deep - i had to get some caffeine to lubricate the brain cells. 😯

[@ricardo9976]

The Waltons are the richest family in the worñd yet they pay starving wages tp workers My wife has.more than 20 years as a cake decorator working for Walmart now for 3 years making 11.75 an hour and she has demanded a pay raise but the management ignores her time and again. With such a criminal wage sanctioned by the gov and Congress we habe to pay car and house insurance, water, electric, property and HOA taxes, food, medical, and clothing, cat expenses, etc..But they require her to do a professional job. As Gil Hodges says, "the corporate establisment has complete control over the economic lives of people.." This means thete has to take place a violent overthrow of this American corporate beast.

[@jamespurcer3730]

During the Q&A, Mr. Hedges mentions the significance of Blues music and the arts to those who are oppressed. One of my favorite blues songs is called "Third Degree". the only version I've heard is the Clapton cover of the song on the album "From The Cradle".

[@nilanperera4774]

Wow...every time the phrase 'Great Satan' cycles back into my fiel of hearing, it makes more and more sense.

[@jlm56]

I love Chris Hedges! Excellent talk again. Would have been much better though as far as adjusting the camera, was too far away and never able to see any of the people asking questions at the end. :(

[@juancananey8348]

HEDGES FOR PRESIDENT!!

[@anderslarsen4912]

"We are mesmerized by our electronics"....... that's a quote great

[@designthinkingwithgian]

Yet all the sheep will continue to perpetuate the myth of "greatest country in the world" Give me a break...

[@panpsychism_]

Whenever I hear that line from an individual it alerts me to how unaware they are. Unfortunately the myth is too large, and deep, to counter in a single response.

[@lolapatton5444]

I love this man!

[@MrHarveyrex23]

You can't solve the problem of racial inequality and racial injustice without solving the problem of socioeconomic wealth inequality. Wealth inequality/ poverty/ economic deprivation/ financial hardships/ artificial scarcity being the root causes of racial injustice in America.

[@judithalltop3953]

The root cause of racial injustice in the USA is that the wealthy ruling class uses the tactic of pitting different races against each other to keep the lower classes from uniting against them in an attempt to gain justice for all, and freedom from the wage-slavery the wealthy impose.

[@kathypiazza7228]

@@judithalltop3953 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥺sadly, I Agee with you.

[@justmyopinion9883]

@@judithalltop3953 Well said. Thank you.

[@brianjacob8728]

That's because this is ultimately a class warfare issue (based on royal bloodlines), not race. White middle class people and below need to figure out their best interests are in line with those of the various minority groups, not rich, elitist whites.

[@cabbey31]

The thing is, that after Reagan's trickle down 'piss on your leg and you enjoy it,' it's not really even that racist anymore. Take the rust best of the past 35 years, well north of deep south Oxyana, WV. You've got very white regions of 50%+ unemployment, and nothing but Oxy and Meth.

[@marktunno639]

He speaks truth about power, which few dare do. We need more like him, so share the knowledge .

[@DoogieLabs]

Thankyou very much for fixing this and sharing it.

[@HoroRH]

Didn’t fix the mic on the floor, however. Couldn’t hardly hear the questions

[@1xDollyx1]

So inspiring

[@alicesheridan9865]

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[@skanthaadsigns]

The Prophet of GeoPolitics 🙏🙏🙏

[@bobsmith9719]

Hedges really called Bernie before anyone knew who he really was.

[@666Metalbassist]

Michael Parenti did too.

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

@@666Metalbassist yep I would argue Parenti's analysis is even better, though both Hedges and parenti are useful

[@hjander]

Irreplaceable!

[@randymiller6665]

THE ONLY THING I MILDLY disagree with Chris is, our power comes from a UNIFIED front... UNITY is our ally. Convincing the masses to be unified & then staying unified is the trick though

[@averayugen7607]

In most box stores you are screened for compliance before even applying. Only inner slaves are invited. And nobody thinks that is discrimination in hiring, illegal in every state!

[@bobsmith9719]

Really?

[@MsHumble4]

The Cabal and all so very depressing. .Obama, Bush aren’t nice … The same about Trump… Cruz . So, then where are the Good men ? I am a pro life and what I hear here, it’s NOT what I am for. 😱this world does need a good shake up. Resistance is indeed much needed. Happy I listened to this!

[@michstockholm1164]

Thank you. 😊 ❤️

[@fraser372]

The stampede is on! Can’t you hear the cajoling? The song to which we all are singing, the pheromones that we lost fills the atmosphere , our individuation deferred we are resigned to mope in the dope of consumer addiction, an indistinguishable nonentity within the hive we suckle on the pheromones and reiterate the same, emitting and accepting, amplifying the unspeakable while denying the same. The abyss is this way! Ready on three , one , two, and ….. see you really want to be the one to say three don’t you ? I am tired my Lord , I told you that so many times but you never lifted this weariness from me but except to want to make me seek this sleep of sleep the more . I am so tired my Lord I just wish to sleep please don’t make me dream within that sleep to be anything or something that currently I am not for I am done with dreaming. Done the pheromones are the only thing I breathe in and out my inspiration and my exalted pronunciations upon my out going breath that to a breathless state I must. That is the unspoken that no-one can bring themselves to admit! We are seeking oblivion regardless of the “joy de vie” we may otherwise say! The sugar envelope we daily swallow. If it were not so then we would be more energetic regarding our life’s trajectory and the vanity of our paradoxical love which is consumptive and participatory it is all we hunger for not this agape love that is only just an unrealised transformation to which this world within its collective perception within its six senses could provide a parental affirmation to that we are anaesthetised, for that , we are tired we can no longer in enthusiastic go dreaming about a dream.Not know or ever more,,,,

[@mrjones7222]

Thanks

[@borisyeltsin6606]

17:32 - 17:52 nice 43:15 the bit about abortion is incredible, can you imagine

[@compassioncampaigner728]

Twelve 8 billion dollar submarines in 2015? How many carriers have they ordered recently at, guessing, 12 billion a pop? This is why we don't have nice things and kids are hungry.

[@Bisquick]

1:11:15 How can people stare at all the imperative catastrophe Chris lays out here and still have this mindset? It's quite literally insane to me.

[@kylesmith1601]

The part of this that is absolutely terrible is that even if we took power tomorrow and began to unroll all these changes in the USA and Canada and Europe etc it won’t be enough. We need to have basically a simultaneous worldwide revolution. For example, if we lose the Amazon then we’re fucked.

[@NikoHL]

I think Chris has given the same lecture continuously for the past 10 years!

[@kathypiazza7228]

Because his knowledge based opinions are reinforced continuously, not enough people have even thought about how we fix the growing problems of inequality, the widening wealth gap & continued destruction of every kind of life on our planet for geed sake.

[@GrandmaCathy]

Trump as President: inconceivable. 5 years later...well crap.

[@abistonservices9249]

My question is have the Americans the gut's to put this on USA TV channels?

[@marccano5061]

"Business schools are about manipulation", well said. When i was an undergraduate i will come across "marketing majors" , and I always something lacking in their discourse.

[@phobic_musics]

I would love to know what Hedges thinks about the possibility that terrorism is just an apparition created by the corporate state as a means of social control of the masses

[@weinjohn]

Shay's rebellion was in Massachusetts not Vermont. The last battle was fought in Sheffield Massachusetts.

[@linmorell1813]

Strange to listen to this at at the end of 2022, after Trump has been President and things have continued as projected . The UK rapidly followed down the same path with the predicted results.

[@collinsfrank1582]

What you said about christian fascists having two faces, 1) propaganda & 2) indoctrination aligns precisely with Jim Jones's peoples temple.

[@Michael_Paul585]

54:42 well, you see Chris.. the thing is.

[@wearewaves3106]

lol

[@MaartenFlikweert]

1% against 1%

[@GrandmaCathy]

Most people attracted to power are mediocre at best. That's just sad.

[@SuperTonyony]

#AbolishPlutocracy

[@dickhamilton3517]

poor title - the gist of his talk is much more than the first five minutes

[@MrDuffy81]

Dick Hamilton Yes it seems to be more about the corporate takeover of America and the selling out of our representative form of government to the corporations and the short changing of the people in the process. That would be a long title though wouldn’t it?

[@russelredner1642]

Indigenous Peoples have already experienced all that CH is speaking to. More detailed connections to First Nations must be made when he only speaks to immigrants Peoples....all immigrants peoples, he is making the same error in his argument culturally and historically. He speaks to liberalism from within that establishment culture, while making the same error by omitting Indigenous People continentally.

[@josephreadsbooks3296]

54:42 - "Imagine if Donald Trump is president."

[@LOREHAMMER40000]

Meh. If you're worried about climate change advocate for nuclear power. End of story

[@compassioncampaigner728]

Hedges is a pro biotic for the brain as well as the soul.......not easy to do.

[@Lobosank]

That one fellow said Chris and Noam did not believe in the lesser of two evils. Think about that. Oh ok give me that evil instead.

[@kirstinstrand6292]

Dehumanization at its best. Only in America.

[@stephens1950]

TruDumb incompetence and arrogance is 2nd to none

[@MrDuffy81]

Listen to WILLIAM COOPER

[@annabell3385]

He makes so much sense and then he doesn't. What does he think that BLM gave all that money to PRIDE, which is def not supported by everyone who supports BLM.

[@jimmyolsenblues]

so does at any time on any level does Chris believe in anyway in personal responsibility, or is every person's outcome directly the result of the government. We have the internet. We have a way to learn everything, and still people refuse to learn and educate themselves online for free.

[@AgeofCraccadilliaassent]

Been over 30 years of internet and still endorsing corporate duopoly political paradigm

[@thomasscott2553]

Paradoxical how his humanitarianism only starts once the human is born, as though prebirth we are expendable. Very fickled, to say the least.

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

You are not an independent conscious, formed being before you are born. You are just cells. I don't see why you complicate such a simple contraceptive procedure.

[@thomasscott2553]

@GalacticNovaOverlord I believe life begins at conception. I'm Catholic. I understand your point of view. Basically, you are saying we are just monkeys 🐒 evolved chance beings, sort of like malignancy. However if it's true we are made in the image of the divine, that changes the thing, for obvious reasons.

[@p.a.andrews7772]

yes but it's definitely not a racial problem causing fascism at the same time this a big problem concerning fascism!❤

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Our Orwell.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

On Universities: "Students are no longer trained in how to think but what to think".

[@geoffreynhill2833]

"Every successful revolution is tied to the arts." "Sublime madness..." "You don't rise up because you want to but because you have to."

[@geoffreynhill2833]

On faith: 1:21:00 >

[@GrandmaCathy]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@JeepCherokeeful]

America isn’t configured for passenger train travel, at least not anymore

[@alieng9989]

I like you Chris but at 56:40 it’s an AR15 not AR12 and the vast majority are not automatic. But you do have a point when the collapse comes it’s going to get ugly like Yugoslavia.

[@jrshield7793]

You try giving an hour to have talk in front of an audience without making any errors. Hedges was talking about the numbers of law enforcement assassinations in the United States and as he was giving those numbers made a speaking error. It's not a substantive error about the subject matter which is the important thing .What is the of calling that out? ...then you try to make up for it by giving a little praise about a subject Hedges is intimately more familiar than you are. That was your comment and this is mine.

[@DaveWard-xc7vd]

The government forced banks to make housing loans to people who could not pay them back.

[@ilikebells]

The banks weren't forced, it was their idea!

[@DaveWard-xc7vd]

@@ilikebells www.google.com/url?q=www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/hey-barney-frank-the-government-did-cause-the-housing-crisis/249903/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiM7amYlY3tAhUHTawKHUTuCjcQFjAAegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw12bXCNQjhzPH_ObKZJmmAG

[@garypendergraft1398]

Doom and gloom and agony on me. If it wern't for bad luck i' have no luck at all.

[@collinsfrank1582]

I'm sorry Chris , I gave you countless 👍🏼, one for each of your videos that I watched. This is the first time I can't. Because calling the AR-15 "AR-12" is reaching across the WRONG WAY. It makes you look like you don't know what your talking about. Clearly (to me) you know what your talking about.But that kind of detail really matters.

[@kathypiazza7228]

If you want to be heard by those programmed to not listen!

[@jonmo111]

a god among men

[@michellesotelo6537]

This is 4 years old what are your opinions now on Bernie Sanders and will you and Doris Bernie Sanders please for the people of this world

[@gannibalof21st]

Can you tell us what you think of Bernie now?

[@daynnite4462]

we screw today august 2020 whatever happens next who knows I just know it's gonna be bad

[@tanl7756]

Camden used to be a nice city. Who wrecked it? People living there did. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.

[@sstarklite2181]

Help destroy capitalism by NEVER BUYING ANYTHING except necessities! Or buy from small businesses, if you can find any, because entrepreneurialism is a Capitalists MYTH, corporations put all small businesses out of business! Corporations are actually slave plantations and illegal! Because employees are slaves! EQUALITY MEANS EQUAL WEALTH WORLDWIDE!

[@4OHz]

I enjoy (sic) listening to Chris Hedged but like Comsky he fails to emphasize what actions need to be taken: aside from the pushback of protests he never endorses any individual nor policy.

[@unkmonk1]

How about Jill Stein?

[@rosiec4729]

💝

[@johnellis7614]

IN THE BEGINNING, there was peace in heaven as everyone was good natured with a grateful conviction that life was a gift they did not deserve. A grateful desire to own only enough for a comfortable life and to give all you could give to those slower of thought. The moral fabric of society being to have a compassion and give charity in a way that best produces a grateful response. Than in due time the question arose: As God rules over heaven and receives glory, honor and worship because of his infinite knowledge and intelligence, what would be wrong with everyone being like God to those less intelligent? Why not have everyone desire to compete for wealth and have the glory and power of wealth in direct proportion to intelligence? So, to prove the harm in it, earth was created with the vast majority of humans given an ingrate conviction that life was an unalienable right, which gives them a desire to be enriched upon the misery of those with less education, less wealth or less whiteness of skin. And so, in every nation on earth, always has the more intelligent upper-half of society hoarded all of the land, wealth and political power.

[@lynlee6861]

Life is an unalienable right. God gives life. Success is more dependent on the individual. But a society with morals, key word morals, plays a part in helping the individual.

[@glen6945]

ACE

[@DaveWard-xc7vd]

People are not being left behind. They are falling behind. America is becoming an ever increasingly technologically driven society and people are failing to put forth the efforts to keep up. Gone are the days of a high school dropout getting a job at the car plant making $25.00 an hour tightening lugnuts. Only 12% of U.S. adults scored in the highest literacy proficiency levels, and only 9% scored in the highest numeracy levels. While 52% of Americans score below the minimum literacy required for coping with the demands of everyday life and work in a complex, advanced society, and successful secondary school completion and college entry

[@alexcarter8807]

Hedges is off-target holding Stack up as a hero for flying his plane into the IRS building. Stack was not poor, not by a long shot. He had IRS problems but the IRS is very, very easy to deal with. Your state tax authority is more likely to be difficult. Stack was a relatively well-off, ideologically motivated Tea Party type.

[@JB-vb6dh]

Trump predicted 54:40. Fascinating to watch this in September 2020 😶

[@johngjesdahl8140]

Hunter Thompson predicted Reagan as president way back... 60's.

[@letaureau3622]

1:01:48 Bush

[@donalddrysdale246]

Bush? oh, you mean the beyond psychotic cult that had their goons cut the shafts in the twin towers and then plant thermite mixture explosives, or Bush Sr caught lying about when he was in the CIA, and was obviously involved in JFKs assassination. ya, heard of the guys.

[@glm4054]

💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘

[@MrDeicide1]

WenceSlas Slas, Chris SLAS

[@cbskwkdnslwhanznamdm2849]

Inequality and poverty are two different words, one of them is a problem.

[@kathypiazza7228]

Fix the problem INEQUALITY and the resulting outcome that equality will bring is shrinking poverty. Poverty will shrink actually very quickly!

[@cbskwkdnslwhanznamdm2849]

@@kathypiazza7228no, we’ll all be equally poor. Inequality is a feature of freedom. USA has most progressive tax system in the world, just relax and enjoy.

[@JeepCherokeeful]

In summary, Chris is contradictory in his philosophy. Weird

[@maungkyaw3519]

JANUARY 6TH USA IS REAL AMERICANS DEMOCRACY???????????????????????????

[@cellevangiel5973]

In Germany, children in school learn about the holocaust. What do American children learn about their national past and the slaughtering of the indigenous people when they stole their land? How many million, women and children ?

[@tonyisnotdead]

American children learn what happened...?

[@ptcomp1196]

Commentary from 5 years ago is irrelevant now. The world is so different now....