Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
So said Benito Mussolini, the leader of the closest governmental form of fascism in human history.
The media narrative relating the tea party movement to fascistic pining, based in the divisive rhetoric of the political left, emphasizes the institutional malpractice committed by establishment media on a daily basis. It is as if J-School requires one to ignore history and the most basic of researching skills. Nowhere can the enfeeblement of a culture through the corruption of entitlement be better seen than within our modern establishment media. Why bother to understand the subject (or better yet, examine objectively) when the paychecks will come anyway?
Case in point, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, who laments the collapse of political discourse within our nation, while contributing to the very thing he laments. Truthfully, the article is nothing more than a communist diatribe against Wall Street and globalization (which is rather amusing considering the global goals of the communist left). But what really bears mention regarding this article is the intellectual dishonesty apparent immediately through the use of false imagery:
This image drives Hedges’ narrative of the “mass of increasingly bitter people whose alienation, desperation and rage fuel emotionally driven and incoherent political agendas,” otherwise known as the tea party movement.
How do I know this image has nothing to do with the tea party movement? I witnessed this “plant” first-hand, and Sharp Elbows (famous for slaying the beast, Phil Hare) of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition shot the video in which we ran this infiltrator out of our rally.
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But we already knew the establishment media played fast and loose with its narrative of the tea party movement, so let us dig into the article parading as journalism written by a prize-winning journolist.
Hedges has the language of class struggle down perfectly, whether he refers to “masters and serfs” (which seems odd considering the fact that communism will not take hold, according to Marx, until we have advanced to the era of the bourgeoisie and workers; perhaps he advocates Chinese communism) or the “disempowerment of the working class” (of which he is clearly a member). In an attempt to place himself above the fray, Hedges decries the false dreams advanced by both capitalist and communist elites:
They sell us a dream. These elite interpreters of globalism are the vanguard, the elect, the prophets, who alone grasp a great absolute truth and have the right to impose this truth on a captive people no matter what the cost.
Somehow, Hedges found the middle-ground between these competing philosophies of globalization, yet he is admittedly a socialist. To pretend that the tea party movement and the triumvirate of Obama-Pelosi-Reid are one and the same is ridiculous. The current administration supports the corporate welfare and nationalized social services that Hedges allegedly worries will bring about fascism and globalization, yet nowhere is he critical of this agenda. Instead, he attacks the hands-off attitude of the tea party movement and the liberal elite critical of the current administration.
Most amusingly, Hedges seems to suggest that the socialist movement within America was somehow destroyed years ago:
The steady destruction of the movements of the left was carefully orchestrated. They fell victim to a mixture of sophisticated forms of government and corporate propaganda, especially during the witch hunts for communists, and overt repression. Their disappearance means we lack the vocabulary of class warfare and the militant organizations, including an independent press, with which to fight back.
If this were the case, how could the tea party movement even come to fruition against the socialists in our midst parading around as progressives. And if an independent press does not exist, what does that make Hedges!?
Chris Hedges plays the role expected of him by the progressive elite. Having advanced their cause too quickly within an American culture that values liberty above all else, the socialists pretend they never existed. They pretend the last four years of progressive control over Congress did not occur. They rely on short attention spans to advance the media meme that the tea party movement somehow represents the rise of fascism in this country.
And this will be the pattern of journalistic malpractice orchestrated by the establishment media over the next two years.
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