Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Chris Hedges: As a Socialist, I Have No Voice in the Mainstream - Chris Hedges on RAI (6/7)" video.

I don't think that is true. As correct as Hedges might be and I agree with most, maybe everything he says, until there is a workable plan or strategy to take over, like the Republicans developed, nothing is going to happen. So asking Americans to listen to this and get depressed and miserable because there is nothing they can do is unrealistic. I don't mean to be negative, but if there is something concrete that can be understood and done I think most Americans would do it, but they are tired of wasting time, energy and money supporting people like this who don't get anyone closer to anything.
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@CaravanseraiSouthValley In theory, I agree with much of what Hedges says. The problem is Hedges has no real experience of understanding of our government, how it works and why it is impossible to change. Sure, if there was an upswell of activism across the country a the local level things might change - but what things and how? Furthermore, the people are so fragmented that they don't even go out and vote. Another thing about Hedges that disgusts me, along with Chomsky and most of the far Left pundits who I used to follow assiduously, is they are constantly side with Palestinians 100% and 0% with Israel. I consider myself far Left, but Palestinians have no claim to a role in the Left ... and that is disgusting. Whenever you hear these pundits, and organizations like Democracy Now! never reporting both sides of this issue, you know they are fake. So in political theory the Left is great, and reporting news with respect to the Liberal, Progressive, Tolerent, democratic point of view, they are great, but they shift over to Middle Eastern horror terrorists 100% and never report on Israel, or what the Palestinians do to bring police actions against them. I have no interesting in Hedges, Chomsky or any of this clique. They are liars and cannot be objective. They only tell the truth to establish a base, and then they corrupt them with lies.
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Not only do socialists not have any voice in American politics, but they are oppressed and it is made very hard for them to be heard and when they are the thug minions come in to swamp every discussion, name call and ridicule then, even though the basis for these attacks is wrong at best and often ridiculous.
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@CaravanseraiSouthValley > "They are liars and cannot be objective," is not exactly what I'd characterize as an objective statement. It is 100% objective. You're just balking at the intensity of the statement, but the proof is right out there in public in what he says.
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What I am saying is that if you bother to listen to Hedges, and others, they are the ones that lack logic. Very similar to what happens on the Right, the icons of intellectually weak and ignorant people who don't understand the issues just follow those who have built up their trust based on "words and editorials" on non-related issues to an agenda that doesn't work. My logic would try to ask people - with the leaders we have on the so-called Left, what have they gotten done, and what do they have a prospect of getting done in the future if you listen to and follow their current rhetoric. You snap into defensive mode and start insulting me shows you are brainwashed with this reaction which is as unproductive as anything on the far Right. I would not be a bit surprised if Hedges, Chomsky and other "progressive" political icons were actually working in, for or with the far Right military industrial complex - because to me, all that matters are results. I've never seen any of these people actually working to brainstorm, discuss, plan and lobby in a reasonable way as a business organization would do to pursue its goals. They just show up to tell you pretty words, and sell their books, videos and collect speaking fees. When nothing gets done and the government moves more to the Right and these people don't do anything different, you should at least be willing to be critical and maintain an open mind. Does this sound like someone with an open mind?" >> you've decided to waste your life on peacocking, all feather & no fly. Whether I decide to invest the time to argue with you has no bearing on my critiques of Hedges or anything else. You have not demonstrated your ability to do anything but insult and task me with answering questions you will just disagree with.
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Until this guy or socialists have a detailed project plan for how to get any of this done it is a big waste of time to feign self-righteousness and sell books and take speaking fees for doing anything, because they are not.
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