America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
Bill MoyersThe most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it's "important" that we reduce the influence of money. Yet 91 percent think it's "not likely" that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what's right to do yet don't think it can or will be done.
Bill MoyersThe consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.
Bill MoyersIt's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.
Bill MoyersHow do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
Bill MoyersIn one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether โwe, the peopleโ is a moral compact embedded in a political contract or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others.
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