Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
BILL MOYERSCapitalism 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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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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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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There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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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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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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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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