Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming

John Light: For decades, Bill Moyers warned about our current crisis of democracy as it gradually drew nearer.

Posted by Corky at 01:30 PM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink

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NPR's Scott Simon remembers the astonishing career of former White House press secretary and long-time public broadcasting journalist Bill Moyers, who died this week at the age of 91.

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-- NPR (@npr.org) Jun 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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"Let me make it clear that I don't harbor any idealized notion of politics and democracy," he said in a 2013 speech to NYU's Brennan Center for Justice, followed by a quip: "I worked for Lyndon Johnson, remember?"

But, he added in that speech, "there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That difference can be the difference between democracy and oligarchy."

Ultimately, he was right. And not just about that."

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-30 10:38 PM

We're so much in trouble. Thank God I won't be around for the worst of this. I fear that this is the end of our country. I have no proof just a guy feeling that I have. We had a good run. Sad to see it like this.

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-30 10:46 PM

We're so much in trouble. Thank God I won't be around for the worst of this.

Remember Laura.

We are all gonna die!

So if it comes down to it going out in a "blaze of glory" for democracy doesn't sound so bad to me.

But also remember.. midterms are just around the corner.

It's never over until it's over.

Semper Fi

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-01 01:58 PM

I miss Bill Moyer and his steady voice of reason.

The planet is a lesser place without beautiful minds like his here.

But fortunately he has left behind a lot of himself in his videos and documentaries.

One I highly recommend is "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth"

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-01 02:02 PM

So if it comes down to it going out in a "blaze of glory" for democracy doesn't sound so bad to me.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy

I hope MAGA stops to consider... There will be nothing more dangerous to this regime than those who have nothing left to lose.

#5 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-07-01 02:13 PM

Semper Fi

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-01 01:58 PM | Reply

Even though I wasn't a Marine (only born on its birthday) I salute you.

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-07-01 02:38 PM

That Moyers was a real peach.

It should be noted that rooting out gays in government wasn't the only dirty task Moyers conducted while working in the Johnson White House. He also oversaw the FBI's wiretapping of Martin Luther King and successfully prevented the civil rights activist from challenging Mississippi's all-white delegation to the Democratic National Convention in 1964.

#7 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-07-02 10:20 AM

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