In an OpEdNews essay titled “A Movement Too Big To Fail“, Chris Hedges explains why we must never compromise our values or temper our legitimate criticism of America. Wrong is wrong. As he so eloquently puts it . . .
“What kind of nation is it that spends far more to kill enemy combatants and Afghan and Iraqi civilians than it does to help its own citizens who live below the poverty line? What kind of nation is it that permits corporations to hold sick children hostage while their parents frantically bankrupt themselves to save their sons and daughters? What kind of nation is it that tosses its mentally ill onto urban heating grates? What kind of nation is it that abandons its unemployed while it loots its treasury on behalf of speculators? What kind of nation is it that ignores due process to torture and assassinate its own citizens? What kind of nation is it that refuses to halt the destruction of the ecosystem by the fossil fuel industry, dooming our children and our children’s children?”
I cannot think of better words to lay out the moral and political crisis facing our nation.
