"And that’s when it hit me: how we’ve let these kids down. The mess
we’ve handed them. The huge debts. An economy producing too few jobs and
vast inequality. A rich man’s country with a flailing middle class.
The tenuous prosperity of everyday people wiped out by Wall Street
insiders and Washington hucksters, still up to their old tricks. And far
below the water line, like those passengers on the Titanic, the poor,
traveling as always at the cheapest rate, trapped in steerage.
How did we become a country of such ugly, stupid politics? One party,
doddering and feckless; the other, radical, and reckless, and downright
mean, driven by unblinking ideologues with kamikaze souls."
- Bill Moyer
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