Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
BILL MOYERSHere is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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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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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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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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We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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