Bill Moyers: Which America Will We Be Now? Our business and political class owes us better than this. After all, it was they who declared class war twenty years ago, and it was they who won. They’re on top. If ever they were going to put patriotism over profits, if ever they were going to practice the magnanimity of winners, this was the moment. To hide now behind the flag while ripping off a country in crisis fatally separates them from the common course of American life.
To question the rich and powerful people who run America these days is to invite their fury. Yet if we don’t speak up, we will lose it all.
Moyers’ essay will depress you at first. But if it inspires you to get off your butt and start working for a just society, then it will have accomplished its purpose.
“Democracy wasn’t canceled on September 11, but democracy won’t survive if citizens turn into lemmings,” he writes. Pay heed, because everything America stands for — or should stand for — is more at risk than it’s been in a long time.