Debt Ceiling Politics: Fearocracy or Democracy? | MichaelMoore.com

Debt Ceiling Politics: Fearocracy or Democracy? | MichaelMoore.com

"For over a decade, we've been running our politics on fear so often that it's hardly noticeable. Take the debt ceiling kabuki -- catastrophic economic consequences if we don't raise the ceiling, the end of America if we don't cut entitlements. This kind of fear-mongering is exactly how the banks justify any and everything to bail them out. And it's disguising the actual problems we have as a nation, the six industries strangling our freedom: health care, banking, agribusiness, defense, energy, and telecom."