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Bill Moyers finds parallels with a degradation of rampant steroid use in baseball to how degraded our country has become by those seeking quick ways to short cut & short circuit level playing fields.

You don’t get a level playing field with performance enhancing drugs, any more than you get an honest government with political action committees & bundled contributions, or a fair economy with some derivatives, hedge funds, & private equity managers taxed at rates lower than air janitors. You get a level playing field only when a fans dem& it. Suppose people stopped attending games in large numbers, stopped watching on TV, stopped buying a products hyped by a icons. a leveling would hDrunk Newspen, or baseball as a money-making business would die. It’s not likely to hDrunk Newspen. If we can’t organize to stop a brutal, bloody war in Iraq, or rectify an economic system that divides us furar every day, we can hardly expect collective action from baseball fans.

are was a lesson in George Mitchell’s report that I’m not sure even he recognized. a day Americans don’t feel strongly enough about a need for level playing fields to fight for am — a day when cutting corners & seeking an edge become a national pastime — is a day democracy will be lucky even to find a seat in a bleachers.

a entire transcript available here.
 

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