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Bill Moyers’ “Presidential” Address
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=739
Condemning “the unholy alliance between government and wealth” and the
compassionate conservative spin that tries to make “the rape of America sound
like a consensual date,” Moyers charged that “rightwing wrecking crews”
assembled by the Bush Administration and its Congressional allies were out to
bankrupt government. Then, he said, they would privatize public services in
order to enrich the corporate interests that fund campaigns and provide golden
parachutes to pliable politicians. If unchecked, Moyers warned, the result of
these machinations will be the dismantling of “every last brick of the social
contract.”
“I think this is a deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States of
America,” said Moyers, as he called for the progressives gathered in Washington
last week -- and for their allies across the United States -- to organize not
merely in defense of social and economic justice but in order to preserve
democracy itself. Paraphrasing the words of Abraham Lincoln as the 16th
president rallied the nation to battle against slavery, Moyers declared, “Our
nation can no more survive as half democracy and half oligarchy than it could
survive half slave and half free.”
-- Hop-Frog
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