The revered Bill Moyers called out to Americans and Democrats for something more than a list of action items in this era of great need to return to representative democracy and to recapture the Great Experiment that has been tortured into an unrecognizable tyranny by the politics and policies of George W. Bush and the neocons.
In gottleib’s diary, “Bill Moyers for President,” we read
Bill Moyers is not in trying to change the minds of people but reach folks with the story they would embrace if only they were allowed to hear it.
Here is my submission to the dialogue he calls for. It’s short and working its way toward sweet, I think. I hope the BooTrib Community “hears” it. I’d like to hear back what my story means to indivdual Froggers — how do you interpret it? — whether you embrace this American Story or not.
Our New Story — Populus Americus
is old again: Government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Let us go back to being America again, keeping the “good old” and revitalizing what America means for the next century in the following way.
Let our story be titled “Populism for the Planet” and let its motto be, “What’s good for Mother Earth is good for the country.” Let our duty be to, “Ask not what you can wring out of the environment, but what you can restore.” Let our rallying cry be, “Earth first because it’s the only.”
Quite simply, if we don’t abjure national elitism, corporate ultramontism, and turn toward reestablishing positive rights within a civil society, the culture of greed will continue to devastate our, if I may coin a word, bihome (pronounced “biome”).
As is true of an actual biome, diversity and symbiocity are the key to a bihome’s sustainability. And as biologist, Lynn Margulis, holds, symbiosis is the major driving force behind evolution. Similarly in a bihome, symbiocity is the major driving force impelling progress.
Recognize these simple principles of diversity and symbiocity, act on them, live by them, legislate and govern by them and America may enjoy a resurgence, not just within her own borders but one that extends past them, overflowing the world.
If we fail to act and live by them, then it is only a matter of accelerating time when the super biome — Earth — will collapse and perhaps die from (coining another term) mankind disease, and government of, by, and for anyone will be moot.
DISCLOSURE: [Most of what appears in this diary originally was a comment to MontanaMaven’s diary, “Moyers Asks Us to Shout from Our Keyboards,” at Daily Kos.]
