Bill Moyers: ‘We’re Almost Out of Time’

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Listen: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bill_moyers_were_almost_out_of_time_20110518/



NOTE: This is a 55-minute show that also includes Nomi Prins talking about Strauss-Kahn and the IMF; and a segment on grass-roots philanthropy. The Bill Moyers segment begins at 21:20.

-Looking forward to this when I get the chance to tune in.

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Bill Moyers: "It’s more “now,” and therefore there is no governance; there is no balance wheel. I’ve been doing deep research, forensic research, into the period between 1860 and 1912, the period that followed the Civil War, saw the populist movement in an effort to tame the growing powers of great wealth—the railroads, the trusts, the monopolies. And we’re seeing the same thing now that we saw then, only more so. There was a period of time when the populace and the progressives—William Jennings Bryan…people like that, frontier champions of the people—thought that they could regulate these powerful economic interests, and discovered that they couldn’t. Liberals came along after the New Deal, thought we could regulate capitalism, and it turned out capitalism was regulating … capitalism captured the regulatory state. I think we have to go back to what Jim Hightower, the great populist from Texas, present populist from Texas, says about the populists: that they didn’t want to criticize the government, they wanted to own the government. And I think that’s exactly what’s—I mean, democracy is in trouble. We’re almost out of time. It’s always a series of narrow escapes, representative government, and we just—we may be running out of luck right now."

more: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bill_moyers_were_almost_out_of_time_20110518

30 years to fight it.

Look to your left and right; you're probably looking at the traitors who handed power to these monsters.

They thought they were cool. They thought we were stuck in the past.

America has destroyed America.

Our last chance to turn the tide was the election in 2008,
and the Corporations and Neo-Liberals/Conservatives WON BIG through well scripted marketing.

However, I see "Hope" for The World in other places, like the successful Populist Reforms gaining momentum in Latin America.
These are nothing short of (near) bloodless revolutions.
In country after country, they are getting rid of the blood sucking Ownership Class.

FDR said much the same thing in 1944 with his Economic Bill of Rights.
Bolivian President Evo Morales sounds more like FDR than anyone in the Democratic Party Leadership.



"They were arrogant and spoiled; they had everything they needed and still refused to help the poor and needy." Ezekiel 16:49