How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
BILL MOYERSBig money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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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.
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Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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America is the longest argument in the world.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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