{"id":15444,"date":"2013-12-08T12:28:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15444"},"modified":"2013-12-08T12:29:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:29:24","slug":"credibility-of-the-ruling-elite-is-being-shredded-chris-hedges-on-reality-asserts-itself-pt2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/08\/credibility-of-the-ruling-elite-is-being-shredded-chris-hedges-on-reality-asserts-itself-pt2\/","title":{"rendered":"Credibility of the Ruling Elite is Being Shredded &#8211; Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself pt2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network<\/em> has the second part of a series in the video <a title=\"The Real News Network video\" href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=11012\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Credibility of the Ruling Elite is Being Shredded &#8211; Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself pt2<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On RAI with Paul Jay, Chris Hedges says that while people are disgusted with the centers of power, unless there is a constructive alternative, any eruption will be nihilistic and could be fascist<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hnkNKipiiiM?rel=0\" Style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>At 2:37 of the video, there is a picture with a caption <q>Alexander Berkman in 1919 on the eve of his deportation from the US<\/q><\/p>\n<p>Having started to read the book <a title=\"Amazon page for this book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges-ebook\/dp\/B00440D9DM\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1386281115&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=death+of+the+liberal+class\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Death of the Liberal Class<\/strong><\/a> by Chris Hedges, I am wondering how it came to pass that my maternal grandfather was not deported from this country before he had a chance to even start his family here. &#8220;Chapter III &#8211; Dismantling the Liberal Class&#8221; is quite startling.  The extent to which government and 1% supported propaganda and intimidation has played a role in shaping us since prior to WW I is really eye opening.<\/p>\n<p>I covered the first part of The Real News Network series in the previous post <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/05\/the-pathology-of-the-rich-chris-hedges-on-reality-asserts-itself-pt1\/\" title=\"Previous Post\" target=\"_blank\">The Pathology of the Rich \u2013 Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself pt1<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network has the second part of a series in the video Credibility of the Ruling Elite is Being Shredded &#8211; Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself pt2. On RAI with Paul Jay, Chris Hedges says that while people are disgusted with the centers of power, unless there is a constructive alternative, any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15446,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444\/revisions\/15446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}