Stephen Vincent posted a forward of Moyers’s December 1 speech to the Poetics list this morning. The text is available on the Common Dreams site and on a number of other progressive news sites, including truthout.
As Vincent notes, a number of people who identify themselves as left, liberal, or progressive seem to still be wandering around in a post-election daze, and cautions against taking the administration’s blend of history, ideology and theology – identified by Moyers as the nexus of attitude and faith holding sway on policy in contemporary Washington, DC – lying down.
I’ve been in my usual too-busy-with-teaching daze to devote enough time to studying, thinking, and writing about the political environment. And even those efforts would be inadequate prerequisites for the action that has to be taken in order to open debates that might bring the democratic back into the process of community building and governance.
What must be done? is the awful question, and as Moyers confesses, he is sometimes hard-pressed to trust his own characteristic optimism.
In a follow up post, Vincent includes Bill Moyers’s professional email address,
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