i think i lost my respect for chris hedges when he condemned the anti-fascists and said we should ignore the fascists. at first i thought maybe that was right and that violence would just inflame the haters more and incite the force of law and power to more violence. but i've learned to confront bullies is the only way. i've seen how ignoring them actually excites their hatred. and fascists are no more than bullies who started on the playground and made it a career. career failures who now rule the airwaves and the government. how can we possibly ignore them when they are coming for us. they will not stop with our ignorance or respect for the social order. the social order is hate and war, and the war is not just over there where we can easily ignore it and quietly put signs on the lawn and pay our war taxes. the war is on all of nature, on all of us, it's home. it's on us. maybe i got hedges wrong. maybe he was just hedging. maybe he just wants peace. i want that too, but when evil knocks you can't just hide under the bed, especially when you are not in bed, when you are on the street, and evil knocks on your head.