Reclaiming America

alfreda89 is right: This speech by journalist Bill Moyers deserves a wider audience. Among the people he quotes is Berry Goldwater, lifelong conservative and former senator of Arizona. Stay with me until the end:

"The fact that liberty depended on honest elections was of the utmost importance to the patriots who founded our nation and wrote the Constitution. They knew that corruption destroyed the prime requisite of Constitutional liberty, an independent legislature free from any influence other than that of the people . . . representative government assumes that elections will be controlled by the citizenry at large, not by those who give the most money. Electors must believe their vote counts. Elected officials must owe their allegiance to the people, not to their own wealth or to the wealth of interest groups who speak only for the selfish fringes of the whole community."

What is Moyers talking about? He is laying bare the means by which we have been betrayed. We thought we were sending honest people to Washington to make changes--but we have sent the whores into Babylon. They are owned, lock, stock, and barrel, by lobbyists, by corporate bigwigs, by the top 1% of income earners in our society--people who become richer as the middle class becomes poorer.

Please take a moment to read his speech. It's long, but worth your time--and it's broken into four sections, so you can bookmark it and return to it.

http://www.publicampaign.org/savingdemocracy/

Birthday greetings

to misia yesterday and sleigh today.