A good interview in the Guardian: We’ve dug ourselves a really deep hole’ – David Neiwert on the rise of the far right – it holds up well:
“The current conservative movement has decided it no longer wishes to be part of a liberal democracy.”
The principal reason, he thinks, is greed. “By the time they got to the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was president, all they cared about was: ‘Well, fuck you, you can’t take my money away. You can’t tax me!’ Politics has become so focused on economics that we’ve lost sight of humanity.”
I checked out “Alt-America” and read the first 5 chapters. It was hard reading, one can only take so much of the Hyper-Right, racism and paranoia so I found myself spiraling down into a funk. I returned the book unfinished.
Actually, it was a good thing to re-hash many of the stories in the book, I gravitate towards them in my daily news reading and remembering them in the context of their time is good, difficult but good.