Episode 550 Promo - Epstein, Chomsky, & The Politics of Betrayal (w/ Chris Hedges)
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author, & theologian Chris Hedges returns to Bad Faith to engage in a spirited debate about how to act now that liberal incrementalism has led to incremental fascism. Why does it feel like so much left discourse is explaining why we aren't ready to act: "Insufficient union density, insufficient political consciousness, insufficient organization"? If it only takes 3% of the population to spark revolutionary change, what can we do with the tens of millions who mobilized for George Floyd or Palestine? How do we sustain civil disobedience as the state increasingly criminalizes free speech and ratchets up penalties as they did for Jessica Reznicek? Also, Hedges discusses his viral commentary on Epstein's relationship with Noam Chomsky, why he's not a Marxist, and more. Can't skip this one.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:00.0 | Where do I sign an acknowledgement? |
| 0:02.6 | But, Brianna, that's what the civil rights. |
| 0:04.5 | I mean, that's why they all were trained. |
| 0:06.9 | I mean, they knew what Bull Connor was going to do. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm just saying we should be hardheaded and prepared. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm not saying that we should wait. |
| 0:14.9 | I don't think waiting is a good idea. |
| 0:16.9 | And I think to the extent that we can build alternative organizations, |
| 0:20.4 | we better do it as fast as we can. |
| 0:23.1 | Unfortunately, most of them are not in place at the moment. |
| 0:26.5 | Well, the left has been saying this, that we're not prepared and we can't do X, Y, and Z for eight to ten years. |
| 0:32.7 | I didn't say we can't. |
| 0:33.9 | I said, it's harder. |
| 0:36.2 | Okay. |
| 0:36.7 | Well, it's harder. The planning hasn't happened, and now it feels |
| 0:39.9 | like we're maybe already past a point of no return, but certainly edging toward it. And I don't know. |
| 0:45.6 | It feels like we're rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. I find myself exasperated even about |
| 0:52.5 | what I'm supposed to be doing here on the show. |
| 0:55.0 | But it's a different. |
| 0:56.0 | It's two ways of looking at it. |
| 0:59.0 | You can look at it in terms of practical results. |
| 1:02.0 | That's probably not a good idea, given what we're up against. |
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