Monday, May 19, 2008

DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA IS A SERIES OF NARROW ESCAPES, AND WE MAY BE RUNNING OUT OF LUCK

Common Dreams offers an excerpt from a new book, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, by Bill Moyers, one of America's great journalists and prophets. We need to take his alarming analysis seriously and strive to save democracy in America. Here's an excerpt from the excerpt:

We have fallen under the spell of money, faction, and fear, and the great American experience in creating a different future together has been subjugated to individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power -and to the claims of empire, with its ravenous demands and stuporous distractions.

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