How Chris Hedges Shows He Is A CIA Plant

The position that the American so called "far left" has taken against Bernie Sanders reveals the level to which "the left" has been corrupted and penetrated by the forces Marx warned us about in the Communist Manifesto. "A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies." Presbyterian Minister Chris Hedges is the personification of the "German police-spies" aspect of this "holy alliance." I find it interesting that Hedges wants to define what it means to be a socialist in terms of the position one takes on issues that are at best tangential to working class struggle.

Chris Hedges has mastered the art of talking out of both sides of his mouth. He calls out Bernie Sanders for his support of Israel while simultaneously being a Zionist himself. Hedges has said, "You cannot, as Sanders has done, vote for every military appropriations bill, including every bill and resolution that empowers and sanctions Israel to carry out its slow-motion genocide of the Palestinian people, and be a socialist." One might read this and be fooled into believing that Hedges cares about the Palestinians. I am telling you don't be.

Hedges supports imposing a two state solution on the Palestinians along the 1967 borders when the Palestinians don't want one. Poll after poll has shown that 70 percent of Palestinians support a one state solution where democratic institutions will determine the fate of the peoples that live in land controlled by the Knesset. Hedges has cleverly made an anti-democratic argument appear to be noble. In reality it is just casting shadows on the wall. When it comes to Palestine Hedges has shown that he does not believe in democracy. He wants to dictate to the Palestinian people and force them into a non-democratic solution to the colonization of their homeland. Hedges wants you to believe that non-democratic solutions are best for the Palestine problem.

Sanders is not a perfect candidate. He is not left enough in my opinion. But he is the only candidate that wants to do something to relieve at least some of the suffering of the American working class. It is in the interest of the American working class to vote for Sanders. The fact that Hedges wants the American left to shun Sanders on the basis of tangential issues and not vote their interest is another point to consider. What is most chilling about Chris Hedges is his ability to cloak anti-democratic views in the pro-Palestine banner. I say this because Socialism at its base is a democratic movement designed to free the working class from the tyrannical yoke of the capitalist class. Hedges is exploiting the Palestine issue in the hopes of preventing the American working class from using their democratic institutions to better themselves. The fact that so many on the "left" are falling for this ruse is what is truly frightening. Chris Hedges does not care about Palestinians or the American working class.

Bibliography:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091116_the_new_state_solution

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/what_it_means_to_be_a_socialist_20150920

https://electronicintifada.net/content/survey-70-percent-palestinians-support-one-state-solution/6773

http://www.thetower.org/0593-poll-more-than-70-percent-of-palestinians-reject-two-state-solution/

https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/the-ordination-service-for-chris-hedges-with-cornel-west/