predictive unhinged dr. james luther adams was a professor at harvard divinity school but had a more astute understanding of our politics and the future of it than many political pundits and academics. he knew trump would happen: 'adams knew that resentments and bigotry lurk below the surface of all democratic societies and can be roused, under the right conditions, to promote a creed that calls for the destruction of democracy. what is evil about these systems of intolerance and persecution is not the foot soldiers who carry out the crimes, but the organization that mobilizes and unleashes these dark passions (the republican party). he worried that such movement was, late in his life, again on the march. it was more sophisticated (the internet) than in the past, more cleverly packaged, and this time without serious opposition (the corporate democrats and neoliberal bullshit of obama). the hatreds were again being stoked (against immigrants). the labor unions and progressives who had been able to battle back in the 1930s were spent forces. the despair of tens of millions of americans, unable to find manufacturing jobs or work that offered fair wages and benefits, would lead them, he knew, into the arms of these fanatical preachers. the rage of those abandoned by the economy, the fears and concerns of the beleaguered and insecure middle class the and numbing isolation that comes with the loss of community, would be the kindling for a dangerous mass movement. (what really happened hillary?) if these dispossessed were not reincorporated into mainstream society, if they eventually lost all hope of finding good, stable jobs and opportunities for themselves and their children - in short, the promise of a brighter future - the specter of american fascism would beset the nation. (the election of trump because obama turned out to be a corporatist LIAR). this despair, this loss of hope, this denial of a future, led the desperate into the arms of those who promised miracles and dreams of apocalyptic glory. adams had seen it once. he knew what it looked like. he feared it was coming again.' - chris hedges 171205 ... smurfus rex This is remarkable. I wonder what Dr. Adams would say if he were still alive today. Probably, "I effin told you so..." 181130 ... unhinged chris hedges rocks my radical leftist world. i read his book 'wages of rebellion' and it smacked my head. he has a show on RT called 'on contact' and many other speeches and whatnot on youtube. he went to divinity school, was a war correspondent in iraq and the balkans, and got fired from the new york times for refusing to tow the government line. he teaches in prisons with Cornel west. he personally sued the obama administration for the repeal of habeous corpus in the NDA. he is a living hero 181130 ... unhinged (that excerpt is from his book 'american fascists'. in it, he eviscerates the evangelical set. because of his divinity school background, his criticism has a greater weight. professor adams is probably rolling over in his grave) 181130 what's it to you? who go blather from