the fight of our lives?
from a recent speech by bill moyer, in which he scathingly reviews the political milieu in the united states:
The middle class and working poor are told that what's happening to them is the consequence of Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand." This is a lie. What's happening to them is the direct consequence of corporate activism, intellectual propaganda, the rise of a religious orthodoxy that in its hunger for government subsidies has made an idol of power, and a string of political decisions favoring the powerful and the privileged who bought the political system right out from under us.
i think he's mostly right and i'd like to comment on it more, but i haven't the time. perhaps later ...