we don't question - we shout - and & have regressed politics in unproductive and anti-democratic ways.

read more: http://billmoyers.com/content/the-spectacle-of-illiteracy-and-the-crisis-of-democracy/

"C. Wright Mills argued 50 years ago that one important measure of the demise of vibrant democracy and the corresponding impoverishment of political life can be found in the increasing inability of a society to translate private troubles to broader public issues. [