Myles Strasser: Cynicism has obliterated the common good. (Oshkosh Northwestern, 7/2/2011)
Excerpt: [Bill Moyers] addressed the contentious political atmosphere that we currently breathe and recalled his youth, the '40s and '50s, when he grew up in a small Texas town and his dad never made more than a hundred bucks a week.
As a memento of his father's heritage, he has scrapbooked Pa's final pay stub, which was a few cents north of 96 dollars. And yet, Moyers said, he and the richest kid in town went to the same public school, used the same public library, drove the same public roads, and went to the same affordable public university.
He sees a different America today where the super wealthy have corrupted the Norman Rockwell country he knew. He said he doesn't mind if the wealthy buy every golf course, automobile, and gizmo imaginable, but they shouldn't be allowed to buy democracy, which they have done.
Now these are his words and not mine: "The wealthy have bought the Republican Party, about half of the Democrats and never since the early 1930s has there been such a wide gap between those with and those without.Myles Strasser: Cynicism has obliterated the common goodMyles Strasser: Cynicism has obliterated the common good"
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