Truthdig - Reports - America’s Political Cannibalism

A thoughtful reader forwards a reminder that Chris Hedges latest column begins today with: "It is no longer our economy but our democracy that is in peril. It was the economic meltdown of Yugoslavia that gave us Slobodan Milosevic. It was the collapse of the Weimar Republic that vomited up Adolf Hitler. And it was the breakdown in czarist Russia that opened the door for Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Financial collapses lead to political extremism. ..." Read Truthdig Reports