(Liberals, Death)

Just started reading Death of the Liberal Class

by Chris Hedges (thanks for the tip, Brother C.) and have been marking it so much that I might as well stop and just color every page yellow, but here's a bit that really leaped out and caught me by the throat.

Quoth #ChrisHedges: 

"The collapse of past constitutional states...was also presaged by the death of the liberal class. The loss of the liberal class creates a power vacuum filled by speculators, war profiteers, gangsters, and killers, often led by charismatic demagogues. It opens the door to totalitarian movements that rise to prominence by ridiculing and taunting the liberal class and the values it claims to champion. The promises of these totalitarian movements are fantastic and unrealistic, but their critiques of the liberal class are grounded in truth." 

Published in 2010. He could SMELL what The #Trump was cooking, foe show!

Also, this passage (and the other yellow pages I've read so far) fits in perfectly with what I've read so far (in the Amazon sample--still haven't taken the $10 plunge to buy it) in Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat by Jan Zielonka . . . and with my own growing disdain for my Liberal "brethren." 

Oh, and speaking of Jan Zielonka, neither the public library nor either of "my" college libraries had a copy of Counter-Revolution, but I stopped at U of L today and did find this little gem:

Of course, it's not uncommon for me to check a book out, renew it until I can't renew it anymore, and then return it with its virginity intact, but if I manage to not do that this time around, I figure either my Jan Zielonka stomach will be full or I'll be more than willing to part with $10 to get a Kindle Copy of it.

Details as they happen.