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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Moyers: 'We Are This Close to Losing Our Democracy to the Mercenary Class'
The great journalist sounds the alarm about the rise of the plutocracy and the shredding of the social contract.
December 12, 2013 |
Those decisions brought a storm of protest from across the country. He claimed that he never took personally the resentment and anger directed at him. He did, however, subsequently reveal that his own mother told him she had always liked his opinions when he was on the New Jersey court, but wondered now that he was on the Supreme Court, Why cant you do it the same way? His answer: We have to discharge our responsibility to enforce the rights in favor of minorities, whatever the majority reaction may be.
Although a liberal, he worried about the looming size of government. When he mentioned that modern science might be creating a Frankenstein, I asked, How so? He looked around his chambers and replied, The very conversation were now having can be overheard. Science has done things that, as I understand it, makes it possible through these drapes and those windows to get something in here that takes down what were talking about.
That was long before the era of cyberspace and the maximum surveillance state that grows topsy-turvy with every administration. How I wish he were here now -- and still on the Court!
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solarhydrocan
(551 posts)a great American
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)diabeticman
(3,121 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,297 posts)Thanks for the thread, Triana.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)we have already lost it. K&R
bvar22
(39,909 posts)One of the few remaining with the courage to Tell[the-Truth.
Thank You, Bill Moyers.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)carry us through. They dont want to upset the oligarchic apple cart. They despise Snowden and whistle blowers in general, they despise investigative journalists like Michael Hastings, or others that dare speak truth to power. Guess whose side they choose when protestors are being beaten by the police. You will recognize them by their absence in threads like these.
If we are to save our democracy, we must fight for control of the Democratic Party. If the corporatists control our Party, we are lost.
Corruption Inc
(1,568 posts)It's like 2 worlds, one reality based and the other focused on a status-quo that never existed to begin with. In other words, there are a huge amount of conservatives here that have no interest in reality, they prefer cartoons, cat pictures and praising war criminals like Colin Powell.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)think they must disrupt discussions about some of the serious problems that they pretend dont exist. They are alert happy and hide happy. Bah humbug to the lot of them.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)adirondacker
(2,921 posts)I think he verifies much of what true liberals believe and don't fear, the truth.