An interview with Joe Bageant, author of the excellent book, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War.

Bageant offers insight into American redneck culture and tries to explain Birthers, tea baggers and how Republicans have become so infernally adept at convincing working class Americans to vote against their own self-interest, like now, with the current health care debate. Do not miss Deer Hunting with Jesus, it’s essential reading if you want to understand the deeply ingrained psychological complexities that make up modern America, whether you are American yourself or not.