Jonathan Cook, journalist
Chris Hedges gets, I think, to the nub of what is at stake right now
in the US: the rise of American fascism. And the threat comes not so
much from Donald Trump but from the inevitable outfall of the corporate
class' continuing self-interested rule under a Hillary Clinton
presidency.
Hedges:
There is only one way left to
blunt the yearning for fascism coalescing around Trump. It is to build,
as fast as possible, movements or parties that declare war on corporate
power, engage in sustained acts of civil
disobedience and seek to reintegrate the disenfranchised—the
“losers”—back into the economy and political life of the country. This
movement will never come out of the Democratic Party. If Clinton
prevails in the general election Trump may disappear, but the fascist
sentiments will expand. Another Trump, perhaps more vile, will be
vomited up from the bowels of the decayed political system. We are
fighting for our political life. Tremendous damage has been done by
corporate power and the college-educated elites to our capitalist
democracy. The longer the elites, who oversaw this disemboweling of the
country on behalf of corporations—who believe, as does CBS Chief
Executive Officer Leslie Moonves, that however bad Trump would be for
America he would at least be good for corporate profit—remain in charge,
the worse it is going to get.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, seen in reflection. (Andrew Harnik / AP)
