{"id":10703,"date":"2009-09-15T06:25:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T11:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10703"},"modified":"2009-09-15T06:25:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T11:25:39","slug":"chris-hedges-stop-begging-obama-and-get-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10703","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hedges: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Chris Hedges, Truthdig<\/em>, 14 September 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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President Obama is mobbed after delivering his major health care address to Congress. Obama has promised to deliver millions of new customers to insurance companies.<\/p><\/div>The right-wing accusations against Barack Obama are true. He is a socialist, although he practices socialism for corporations. He is squandering the country\u2019s future with deficits that can never be repaid. He has retained and even bolstered our surveillance state to spy on Americans. He is forcing us to buy into a health care system that will enrich corporations and expand the abuse of our for-profit medical care. He will not stanch unemployment. He will not end our wars. He will not rebuild the nation. He is a tool of the corporate state.<\/p>\n

The right wing is not wrong. It is not the problem. We are the problem. If we do not tap into the justifiable anger sweeping across the nation, if we do not militantly push back against corporate fraud and imperial wars that we cannot win or afford, the political vacuum we have created will be filled with right-wing lunatics and proto-fascists. The goons will inherit power not because they are astute, but because we are weak and inept.<\/p>\n

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