Chris Hedges Urges Americans to “Vote With Their Feet”

FEATURING CHRIS HEDGES – This election year is shaping up, by most accounts, to be one of the most dramatic and historic one in recent memory. The emergence of high-profile candidates who don’t fit into the establishment of the two party mold is central to that.

Donald Trump promises fascism and is arguably a direct product of fear mongering by the Republican party and right wing media. Bernie Sanders offers a “political revolution,” but is finding out that doing so within the confines of the Democratic Party is nearly impossible.

In the mean time, are our social and political movements being derailed yet again by the political theater of elections? My guest Chris Hedges just wrote, “There are mechanisms to wrest back our democracy. Voting in presidential elections is not one of them.”

“We must begin to mobilize around mass actions,” says Hedges. “We must, in large and small ways, disrupt the system.”

Read Chris’ Truthdig column ‘Voting with Our Feet’ HERE.

Chris Hedges is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Empire of Illusion; Death of the Liberal Class, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt which he co-wrote with Joe Sacco. His latest book is Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt. He writes a weekly column for the online magazine Truthdig.