Gasland II
Another HBO offering well worth watching.  "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition," James Madison, Federalist #51.

 

One of the things that disturbs me most, as an observer of politics, is when elites on both sides are on the same side and average communities on the other side.  Fracking.  Genetically Modified Foods.  Lyme disease. Campaign Finance Reform.  Less Distorted Daily News.  Just the first items that come to mind; I am sure the list is longer and there is room to disagree about including this or that conflict on the list. 



 

We depend on competition between organizations designed to protect the public interest lead by those who are willing and able to publicize the conflicts causing the most harm in ways that enable citizens to weigh in meaningfully.  When the elites on both sides do not compete, do not present thoughtful alternatives in comprehensible and illuminating ways, democracy is in trouble.