Chris Hedges weighs in on this moment in the American empire and explains why the Democrat's political stagnation in the face of ongoing dysfunction is so dangerous.
"The Rockefellers had a few billion. Our billionaire class has 180 plus billion. And that's social inequality. You don't have to take even political science 101 to understand that that social inequality creates these kinds of messianic right-wing populist, neo fascists. That's what is vomited up from a society that no longer functions." - Chris Hedges
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