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Fascism is always the bastard child of bankrupt liberalism. This was true in Weimar Germany. It was true in Italy. And it is true in the United States, writes Chris Hedges.
By Chris Hedges ScheerPost
The parting gift, I expect, of the bankrupt liberalism of the Democratic Party will be ....
comments Given its statement of purpose ABC News six-episode series Soul of a Nation would have been a relevant, necessary undertaking at any time in our recent history. Surely the audience is aware of why we need it now, in a time when needed conversations about racial inequality have been derailed. Highlighting that urgency is the content featured within the series opener Reckonings. A segment on Evanston, Ill., the first locality meaningfully enacting a plan for reparations, features prominently. So does a lengthy interview with U.S. Capitol police officer Harry Dunn, who delves into detail about his harrowing experience of facing down white supremacist insurrectionists on Jan. 6. ....
Once upon a time, there was a Black security guard who saved American Democracy. His quick thinking and eye for detail allowed him to stop an organized group of Right Wingers who had broken into important government offices looking for information to help them overturn the will of the people. This man was hailed as a hero, but you’ve probably never heard of him. You may think I’m referring to Frank Wills, who stopped the 1972 Watergate break-in, which changed the course of American history. Capitol Hill police officer Eugene Goodman (Credit: New York Times) Yet for such a momentous accomplishment, Wills died relatively unknown and penniless, while others, almost entirely white men, came to fame and fortune from the Watergate scandal. Black people are often praised as heroes for saving a country that treats us like third-class citizens, yet when it comes to the fame, fortune, even historical reverence associated with those great deeds, we’re left by t ....