21-11-2009, 05:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 21-11-2009, 05:49 PM by Gary McGowan.)
Thank you Peter. I just finished watching the video of Michael on Democracy now. It took my breath away and brought tears to my eyes. (I've been living in rural developing country for a long time--a different world from developed countries in terms of media and day-to-day interactions... I've never seen Moore interviewed more than a soundbite before... and I'm from Michigan.)
I was disappointed at the end for their having shown themselves mentally trapped in the "capitalism-socialism" box. Very few, even Americans living these days, were ever taught anything about the American System of political economy, much less its roots and importance in building the nation that saved the world from fascist takeover and sent the first of us to set foot on the Moon.
We'd best re-discover the principles, or most of the planet reverts to being a game preserve and city-state colonies for the financier elite.
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I was disappointed at the end for their having shown themselves mentally trapped in the "capitalism-socialism" box. Very few, even Americans living these days, were ever taught anything about the American System of political economy, much less its roots and importance in building the nation that saved the world from fascist takeover and sent the first of us to set foot on the Moon.
We'd best re-discover the principles, or most of the planet reverts to being a game preserve and city-state colonies for the financier elite.
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