A comment about comments on Part One of "American Exceptionalism"..

Yes, I have great respect for and much agreement with the views of Hedges and Chomsky. My point was that there is a distrust of intellectuals in the American ethos today and truth-tellers like them are on the margins of political discourse, quite ignored by mass media. That wasn’t always the case, and there must be a more concerted effort among us to discuss the real state of the State.