Chris Hedges: "It's not going to be okay ..." - Truthdig

The Kansas Busheviks know it's coming ... smug, bitter, burr-headed and beer bellied the bullies scream the country roads in their monster pick'em ups (4 X 4 X 44) hate radio "talk" blaring across the cornfields, warning the oldsters of Armageddeon and who are the Chosen Few to live in Heaven.  The message, if one can call it that, "the niggers, the poor, the wetbacks, the welfare scum and the old without income - they are to blame."  Treat them like those we bombed in far-off countries for the last sixty years.  [excerpt]  ... At no period in American history has our democracy been in such peril or has the possibility of totalitarianism been as real. Our way of life is over. Our profligate consumption is finished. Our children will never have the standard of living we had. And poverty and despair will sweep across the landscape like a plague. This is the bleak future. ... Read more.