Thank you, Iowa City. Almost 800 of you came to the Englert Theater last night to hear my talk, and many of you whose books I signed told me you were Republicans and conservatives and you agreed with what I said.
The only way we can wrest back control of our economy and our democracy from the moneyed interests is if we join together. And the only way we join together is if we reject their tactic of divide, distract, and control. They want to split us by race, religion, gender, and ethnicity. But we must not let them.
They want us to believe the choice is the “free market” or government, when in fact it’s one system because government sets the rules of the market. And the real choice is between a system that works for the many or the few.
They want us to think people are paid what they’re “worth,” when in fact people are paid according to how the moneyed interests have organized the market -- to their benefit and against most of the rest of us.
They don’t want us to see the upward pre-distributions hidden inside the market that give them a big chunk of our paychecks, as we pay more than we should for everything from drugs to Internet service to food.
They don’t want us to know how much their pollution is sickening us, their devastation of our lands is imperiling us, their sacking of our communities is ruining us, and their takeover of our democracy is robbing us of our capacity to set things right.
But if we understand all this we have a chance to take it all back, because we are the vast majority.
What do you think?
The TRUTH will set you FREE.
