This is good news! I couldn't read the article because it's behind a paywall (When did I read my freebies at the New York Times? I never read NYT, haha). Chris Hedges is an interesting guy. He started in the mainstream but like many on the left he became very disillusioned with Obama (and has apparently sued him?).
I normally don't do podcasts because the information is delivered too slowly, but while cleaning my apartment I once listened to a 90-minute interview of Hedges by a left-leaning youtuber (the youtuber I believe is a registered Independent, voted for Bernie, then both times refused to vote for the Dem nominee after Bernie dropped out).
Hedges had some interesting things to say. I remember he explained how the co-opting of gender and sexuality politics by both the mainstream Dems and the very online lefties has ultimately hurt their cause and turned a lot of people off. Not mainstream issues like gay marriage, but things more fringe. I think a lot of lefties just ignore all the online noise about that (I certainly do), but the fact remains that a lot of people get turned off by it, so it's a problem, and Hedges pointing that out was good to hear.
Nice!
I normally don't do podcasts because the information is delivered too slowly, but while cleaning my apartment I once listened to a 90-minute interview of Hedges by a left-leaning youtuber (the youtuber I believe is a registered Independent, voted for Bernie, then both times refused to vote for the Dem nominee after Bernie dropped out).
Hedges had some interesting things to say. I remember he explained how the co-opting of gender and sexuality politics by both the mainstream Dems and the very online lefties has ultimately hurt their cause and turned a lot of people off. Not mainstream issues like gay marriage, but things more fringe. I think a lot of lefties just ignore all the online noise about that (I certainly do), but the fact remains that a lot of people get turned off by it, so it's a problem, and Hedges pointing that out was good to hear.