Comments by "Meh Pluribus Unum" (@pluribus_unum) on "“The Storm Is Here”: War Reporter Luke Mogelson on U.S. Right-Wing Militias, Jan. 6 & Trump" video.

  1. The Republican party is in an ongoing "Wall Street Putsch"¹ styled insurgency. Since 2004, anti-government and white nationalist terrorists have killed more Americans than all other forms of terrorism combined -- and are responsible for over 85% of terrorist plots and attacks since 1997. ______________________________________________ ¹ "Donald Trump’s elaborate plot to overthrow the democratically elected president was neither impulsive nor uncoordinated, but straight out of the playbook of another American coup attempt – the 1933 “Wall Street putsch” against newly elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt." - Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? by Sally Denton, January 11th, 2022 in The Guardian
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  2. Hedges is a useful idiot for neo-nationalists because he's a progressive with a major dollop of lilywhite Puritan culture scolding. "The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences of social and political collapse during the twilight of the Greek and Roman empires, the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, Tsarist Russia, Weimar Germany and the former Yugoslavia. Voices from the past, Aristotle, Cicero, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Roth and Milovan Djilas, warned us. But blinded by self-delusion and hubris, as if we are somehow exempt from human experience and human nature, we refuse to listen." - Chris Hedges, 2020
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