What’s it gonna take to blow the fuse that’s holding our citizens’ rage from exploding?
It’s the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. It’s Women’s Equality Day. We have much to be thankful for—I wouldn’t go back, as a woman, to the days when I couldn’t own property or get credit without my husband’s permission. No African American would go back.
And yet, we seem to have hit a wall.
Bill Moyers interviewed Mark Leibovich this week. He is the author of This Town, a blistering look at the way Washington works.
This is what Moyers said in summary.
We are so close to losing our democracy to the mercenary class, it’s as if we are leaning way over the rim of the Grand Canyon and all that’s needed is a swift kick in the pants. Look out below.
The predators in Washington are only this far from monopoly control of our government. They have bought the political system, lock, stock…
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