Who Will Tell The People?

Back in 1994, I read an eye-opener of a book entitled, "Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal of American Democracy" by William Greider. In it he laid out in blistering detail the pathological inner workings of American politics & corporations & their corrosive effects on the body politic. This book made me upset as it became obvious that the citizens of this nation, who really want to believe in the myth of American exceptionalism and the belief that the government will work for the benefit of all, are being short-changed and heavily manipulated. Seventeen years after Greider's book release, the plot has thickened and now we find ourselves closer to the cliff's edge. Who indeed will tell the people that they have been betrayed and robbed in the most profoundly diabolical manner, yet again? 

On the eve of the Republican takeover of the House, it will become increasingly difficult for some people (mostly Republican supporters) to understand that they will be in no better shape with the Republicans in power. With the daily rants of  Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh & Sean Hannity filling their heads and overriding their abilities to think for themselves, they will hear nothing resembling reason. President Obama did not cause the predicament we're in, but they have been led to believe so, and like a mob, they want his blood. Indeed, they can't see the forest for the trees yet they too are in the same sad story of our collective malaise. 
 
Make some time to absorb the following video & draw your own conclusions:




The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest. —Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Peace

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