#ChrisHedges | The Politics of Cultural Despair
"The smug, self-righteous 'moral' crusade against Trump stokes the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. It reduces a social, economic and political crisis to the personality of Trump. It refuses to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-cultural-despair-cf2
#USPol #Harris #Trump
"The smug, self-righteous 'moral' crusade against Trump stokes the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. It reduces a social, economic and political crisis to the personality of Trump. It refuses to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-cultural-despair-cf2
#USPol #Harris #Trump
The Politics of Cultural Despair - Read by Eunice Wong
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
