Reply #10: "a renaissance of democracy"

[welshTerrier2]

I just love that phrase ... I write on DU all the time about restoring our democracy. I know Gore has been focusing on that during his recent book tour and I think that's great. The question I still have is, how does he say we get there from here?

many speak about empowering citizens or "democracy imposes an obligation for us to be informed" or "good governance can't happen without YOU" or all the other pep talk stuff ... that's all fine as far as it goes ... but there really is a corporate stranglehold on our democracy. politicians are afraid to talk about it because their source of funding would be shut-off. the whole military-industrial-congressional complex needs to be outed and destroyed.

i've read Confessions of an Economic Hitman and The Sorrows of Empire. both books clearly show how our entire foreign policy is controlled by and for the sole benefit of private commercial interests. we send our military overseas to die for their greedy objectives. who will stand up to that? who will lay that before the American people? without a very bright spotlight and someone with the courage and power to wield it, nothing, absolutely nothing, will ever change.

I appreciate your confidence in Gore. I hope I arrive at the same place after reading his book.