Michael Moore’s Revolution — Everybody Vote
By Donella Meadows
–October 22, 1998–
Michael Moore’s election message is bouncing all over the Internet. “OK, I’ve had it,” says Moore, the maker of the film “Roger and Me” and the show “TV Nation.” “I propose a legal act of civil disobedience.”
Moore says he is not a Democrat and did not vote for Bill Clinton in ‘96. But he is infuriated [...]
End of Congressional Session, Riders Run Amok
By Donella Meadows
–June 11, 1998–
“Rider mania!” warns the daily email brief I get from the Grassroots Environmental Effectiveness Network (GREEN).
It happens at this time every year. We are approaching the end of a Congressional session. Complicated money bills full of large numbers zoom around Washington, bills that MUST be passed by Congress and signed by the President if the government [...]
What the American People Really Want
By Donella Meadows
–October 24, 1996–
Every day in this crazy cartoon campaign the politicians tell us what the American people want. A 15 percent tax cut. Welfare reform. Education. Whatever.
They pay fortunes for polls, these politicians, so you’d think they know what we want. But have you ever been polled? Did you notice what a cramped set of choices you were [...]
The System is Rotten, but Vote Anyway
By Donella Meadows
–October 17, 1996–
Bill Clinton says the Republicans want to cut Medicare.
Bob Dole says stop scaring old folks, I just want to make Medicare grow more slowly.
There, in the so-called “debates,” the matter rests. No neutral party says clearly that under either Clinton’s or Dole’s budget total expenditures on Medicare would go up, so technically that’s not a cut. [...]
Why be a Republican? Why be a Democrat?
By Donella Meadows
–August 15, 1996–
What are these people with the funny hats at the political conventions cheering for?
What meaning, underneath the heated rhetoric, does either party have? What is there to get enthusiastic about? Both parties are riddled with corruption. They have no principles; they huddle as close as they can get to what they think is the middle of [...]
