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Glenn Beck Friday: Creepy, Maudlin, Hysterical Populism on Display

The clip below is illustrative of how religious emotionalism is easily translated, by a charlatan like Glenn Beck, into political emotionalism. And notice the Nazi-like volkish essentialism at work here. Implied by Beck is the notion that all true Americans can tap their inner … Continue reading

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If America’s Economic Retraction Becomes Even Worse, Will We Behave Like the Waltons—or the Nazis?

In a recent essay, former NY Times foreign correspondant, Chris Hedges, asks what kind of America will evolve, should our current economic contraction prove to be the harbinger of America’s general decline as a world power. Will we see reactionary “Father … Continue reading

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