THERE'S A Jeremiah among us and his name is Bill Moyers.

Moyers believes, deeply, that we are in danger, and terrorism is not what has driven his threat advisory to level orange.

We have fallen under the spell of money, faction, and fear, and the great American experience in creating a different future together has been subjugated to individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power -- and to the claims of empire, with its ravenous demands and stuporous distractions."

Over the last thirty years a well-funded and closely coordinated coalition of corporate elites, power-hungry preachers, and hard-line ideologues has mounted an aggressive drive to dismantle the public foundations and philosophy of shared prosperity and fairness in America

"When you see uncaring people in high places, everybody should be mad as hell."