Moyers: 'Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck'

For all of its shortcomings, we keep telling ourselves, "The system works."

Now all bets are off. We have fallen under the spell of money, faction, and fear, and the great American experience in creating a different future together has been subjugated to individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power -and to the claims of empire, with its ravenous demands and stuporous distractions. Full Story »

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by Gary Holcomb - Oct. 1, 2008

Here is my bias: extremes of wealth and poverty cannot be reconciled with genuinely democratic politics. I've recently come to see Moyers for what he is: truly prophetic, in that he connects the dots by using truth, realistic perspective & superb rhetorical construction. Can one ask for a better journalistic performance? over the short time that I been listening to his arguments; I have never heard anything that he has said that is disagreeable to me.

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