Bill Moyers interviewed Glenn Greenwald. Really important and really depressing stuff. One depressing snippet:
And so, what people like the Washington Post editors and really the political elite, generally, are saying is that it’s more important for us to go into debt to provide services to other nations, so that we can control them, than it is to provide services to our own citizens who lack those same services.
And I think the reason for that is clear: That because the people who are saying that — the people at THE WASHINGTON POST editorial board — already have access to those services. They already have health care coverage. And so, to them it’s just a purely abstract issue. It’s a purely abstract question whether Americans who don’t have health care coverage can have it. But I think that they’re reflecting what the priorities are. That it doesn’t matter what our foreign adventures and foreign domination costs, we do it no matter what. But everyone inside the United States, ordinary Americans, have to wait, and can’t get basic services from the government, as long as we have to go into debt in order to pay for it.
And also:
there gets to be a point where citizens look at the government, and they look at both political parties, and they conclude that the system itself is so radically corrupt and the political parties are so fundamentally nonresponsive that no matter what it is that they do, they aren’t going to be able to achieve any change. They feel a sense of learned helplessness. And they essentially accept whatever it is that’s done to them and simply hope that it’s not too bad. And I think that’s the population. It’s not that they’re apathetic. It’s that they’ve come to believe in their own impotence. And I think that’s actually sadder and– and more dangerous.
