America’s Gilded Capital of Corruption and the Triumph of Plutocracy
This is one of those interviews that you can’t recommend enough. Bill Moyers talks with author and New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich about his latest book, This Town, in which he writes that money rules D.C., and status is determined by who you know and what they can do for you.
This program really should be required viewing in upper level high school and college political science classes, to say nothing of the homes of every tax-paying American citizen. The abject duplicity and complicity inherent in our political system today; the rank class divides, the plutocratic patronage processes at work, the blatant disconnect and disregard by the political elites for practically every demographic of American other than those who pay for their attention, etc… is all spelled out with the stark facts. Sometimes it really makes you wonder if it is going to take a revolution to change the course of this level of corruption within the system?
on September 13th, 2013 at 4:40 pm
This is the fnest piece of reporting that I have seen in a long time. I originally saw Mark on ReasonTV and then after watching him on Moyers I immediately purchased his book. Thank you for posting this and letting me view it again and sharing it with others. This gets to the heart of all of our problems. I am still amazed that I have friends who are democrat and republican who refuse to believe that they will work together when it comes to manipulating our system of goverment.