I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear.

This week on Moriasing Company, Dr. Jill Stein and Margaret Flowers have a new practice,

trying to cure what ails democracy.

I'm practicing political medicine because it's the mother of all illnesses, meaning politics, and we don't fix what's really killing us unless we also fix that political system,

which is holding us hostage.

It's with the understanding that our survival depends on doing the right thing.

These are not choices here.

Any nation where 3.5% of the population has gotten engaged, no government has been able

to stand up to that.

3.5% is all we need.

And a new movie you'll surely want to see on how Beethoven's epic Ninth Symphony became

a kiss for the world.

Thanks for joining us.

I once heard a long-time grassroots organizers say, when injustice becomes law, resistance

becomes duty. For Jill Stein and Margaret Flowers, that idea has become the guiding star of their life's journey.

Through one experience after another, each saw that holding political office largely

depends on having huge amounts of capital at hand, and that this perversity of democracy

has enabled injustice to be fashioned into law and public policy, written by the anonymous hand of lobbyists

on behalf of organized money. So rather than look the other way and stick to practicing medicine,

both the doctors, they chose to resist. At first they took separate paths. Margaret Flowers had

been a pediatrician in rural Maryland whose work with everyday people,

including the poor, compelled her to join the fight for single-payer health insurance.

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