J.A. BARTLETT
Monday, January 08, 2007
Quote of the Day

In Salon today Michelle Goldberg talks with Chris Hedges, author of the 2002 book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, about his new book, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. (Last year, Goldberg wrote her own book about the Religious Right's theocratic intentions, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.) Hedges describes Religious Right hardcores thusly:
This is a world of magic and signs and miracles and wonders, and [on the other side] is the world you hate, the liberal society that has shunted you aside and thrust you into despair. The rage that is directed at those who go after the movement is the rage of those who fear deeply being pushed back into this despair, from which many of the people I interviewed feel they barely escaped. A lot of people talked about suicide attempts or thoughts of suicide -- these people really reached horrific levels of desperation. And now they believe that Jesus has a plan for them and intervenes in their life every day to protect them, and they can't give that up.
Goldberg responds: "So in a way, the movement really has helped them."

In response to which Hedges delivers the Quote of the Day: "Well, in same way unemployed workers in Weimar Germany were helped by becoming brownshirts, yes."

Read the whole thing here.
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