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Chris Hedges on Fascism in the US

Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Mr. X

This is a Chris Hedges interview on CBC’s The Hour

Chris does an excellent job of explaining how US citizens are becoming radicalized by a loss of good paying jobs and a future.

Rather than turning their anger on the government who is selling them down the river so CEOs can make 400 to 500 times more than the average employee, their anger is being channeled on their fellow citizens.

Chris Hedges points out that both Republican’s and Democrats have forsaken the poor of the US.
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.Chris He doesn’t provide examples of the Democrats and Republicans forsaking the poor in the US, but I would like to bring up immigration as an example. Republicans say it’s great because no one wants these jobs, but who goes out and talks to the construction workers who have lost their jobs?My mother used to be a house keeper, but she couldn’t get more than $6 an hour for that job now.US citizens have lost these jobs, but does your house cost any less? Has it prevented the cost from going up? Who’s pocketing all the money?Democrat’s don’t care because they say it’s a racial issue. People who are angry about losing these jobs are racists. What about the factory workers who have lost their jobs to China? The millions who are losing their jobs to India, and other Asian countries.Other examples:Nixon opened up trade with China Nixon took the US off the Gold Standard

Bill Clinton pushed through NAFTA

Our trading partners have suffered, too - with huge increases in inequality and massive displacement. For example, at least 1.3 million Mexican farmers have lost their livelihood under NAFTA. As a result, the number of annual immigrants from Mexico to the United States surged from 332,000 in 1993, the year before NAFTA went into effect, to 530,000 in 2000 - a 60 percent increase.