Bill Moyers: 'Capitalism is Out of Control Thanks, In No Small Part, to Citizen's United'

Hmm ... "people's democracy"? Sounds suspiciously like "socialist democracy" to me rather than a land of individual liberty. I can support the second but not the first, although I agree - a corporation, though made up of people, is not a person itself. It is an abstract.

People aren't abstracts. They are real. They breathe, they eat, they dream, they are happy and sad, elate and suffer, grow old and die. People form values, people decide their goals, people need respect for their choices and their lives, people need the liberty to express their opinions. People need a vote in matters concerning them.

Abstracts aren't people. They are wholly dependent on the will of actual people to survive or perish. They will always be inferior to a single human being and their right to live granted to them by other people - not corporations.

Or other abstracts, like "god".

CURRENT should give Bill Moyers all the airtime he wants.

Thanks for the post Kennymotown! BIll Moyers is one of the last remaining 'journalists' in America today and I welcome his input anytime.

I'll believe corporations are people... as soon as Texas executes one.

You got to believe him. After all he is in the 1%.

Hey did it strike anybody else as interesting, that the Taney Court held that people are property; and the Robert's Court has upheld the view that property(corporations) is people?

Thank goodness for Biily Moyers?

Bill Moyers is a paragon of hypocrisy. He tried to get Goldwater declared "insane" by psychiatrists, for example.

Moyers was the hunter of "suspected homosexuals" in LBJ's White House.

And in the Goldwater camp.

He helped Edgar Hoover in the bugging of Martin Luther King.

And Moyers "planted" questions in advance to reporters for LBJ's press conferences.

Moyers was nominated as one of the 50 most influential Progressives by Nation magazine, a rabidly anti-capitalist magazine that eulogizes Che Guevara and is devoted to the overthrow of free-market capitalism.

Moyers’ jeremiads are outrageous. He claimed that Bush and Cheney were "feeding on the corpse of war." Moyers compared people who wear American flag pins to people who adored the Little Red Book of the mass-murderer Mao.

Moyers asserted that the Republicans retaking the Senate in 2002 would unite D.C. behind "eviscerating" our environment. He hints that the rich, as a class have never really held jobs of any kind. Moyers also bemoans opinionated broadcasters who use florid language instead of dry recitation?

His hypocrisy knows no limits. Billybob Moyers denounced relationships between conservative foundations and conservative policy experts, while, at the same time, this miscreant was head of the Schumann Foundation. Moyers not only funded all his favorite left-wing institutions, he paraded them all across his programs that American taxpayer paid for!

Moyers denounces people for eating at the public trough in secret deals, but he specializes in profiting off PBS Home Video and other products he merchandises. Remember Moyer’s program "The Power of Myth," with new-age guy Joseph Campbell? There was an interesting program entitled "PBS: Behind the Screen." It exposed Moyers: He had entered into a secret kickback deal granting him a cut of the book proceeds to Campbell's book. It was one of many such deals Billy has made to “profit” from “NONprofit” television.

Moyers continues to funnel millions of bucks to ultra-leftist causes via his foundation. Moyers will certainly continue to lecture conservative parts of the country about their greedy desire for tax cuts, broadcast from his gorgeous apartment in chic section of Manhattan.

Bill Moyers has been one of the only sane voices in media that cannot be influenced. Though we at Current have one, and others trying to replicate, Moyers is still the standarad for which all others follow.

Also been a fan since the ,Joseph Cambel ( Power of Mythology) interview.

Did he say HenWay???

thanks for posting Kenny

I agree with and admire Bill Moyers, I too am glad he is coming out of retirement.

Saw this last night. I'm glad Bill Moyers is coming back. His voice is needed right now.

Bill Moyers is a very smart sane, and deep thinker, glad he's speaking out!

Kenny,
Peaceful is out of the question. The warlords are used to violent conflict, and they demand something to respond to to justify their illegal response. They demand battle..."Let them eat cake..."

Any action that pushes back on Citizens United is a good thing.

Here is what I just read about Capitalism Without Failure. "Recent history of U.S. economics. 1) Rampant fraud and reckless mismanagement in the financial sector. 2) Bailouts of the worst actors in the financial sector. 3) Overwhelming debt and liability imposed on the taxpayer. 4) Reckless hair-of-the-dog monetary policy aimed at recapitalizing failing banks. 5) Promotion of business leaders and policy-makers who are chronically compromised. 6) Conglomeration of systematically dangerous institutions into a more empowered menace". You have to wonder if there was ever a larger organized crime entity than American politics and business?

Capitalism loves Fascism!