I was exceptionally impressed with the superb interview Bill Moyers conducted with Glenn Greenwald and eagerly looked forward to seeing it aired on PBS stations. Then, after I discovered it wasn’t airing Friday night, I learned to my chagrin that it was a Web Exclusive Conversation. Even though Glenn posted it almost immediately on his blog UT, it needs far wider dissemination. It contained the future of our nation that either we are ordained to accept or the glimmer of one we could seize if we Americans and others around the world truly believed was still possible.

The insightful discussion covered: endless American initiated wars; excessive executive power that encourages and condones criminal behavior; constitutional betrayal through “power corrupts” thinking; civil liberty violations; Beltway inhumanity through selfish, incest thinking; non-aligned countries who see the hypocrisy of Western domination policies and are standing up for themselves; and a corrupted two-party congress and a government dominated by corporate communism through out of control capitalism. Just before the discussion on Rio versus Chicago getting the 2016 Olympics and South American jubilant pride ended the discussion, Moyers asked why are American citizens mute on all of the serious system problems we have been discussing?

Glenn said there were many reasons, but the principle one is something Obama talked eloquently and insightfully about during his presidential campaign. Our system is so corrupt, so non-responsive that the American people have developed a learned helplessness. They are not apathetic. They believe in their own impotence which is sadder and more dangerous.

Bloggers have had endless discussion about this principle problem. Bloggers like Greenwald hold the key to the solution. However no amount of bloggers telling the truth is enough by itself. The challenge is to awake the impotent who act and think defeat before they even start attacking the problem. And more basic than that, it is essential they understand the problem before any attempts to solve it are made.

The power of the Internet is the key. There are now millions of Americans who do understand the problem who are working very hard through the Internet to solve it. The problem is diffusion. Every day awake Americans receive countless emails imploring us to care about or help fund a myriad of important problems both for our nation and the world. The power elite have us chasing so many rats running in every direction that no one has time to build a large enough cage to put them in. If we could build one, it still wouldn’t make the rats all run in one direction into the cage. It is the same problem the “large tent” Democratic party has, “My cause is crucial and I don’t have the time or energy to fight for the greater cause.”

My suggestion would be to create a “Fix Broken Systems” world organization that would include delegates from all these Internet efforts that are separate as much as possible from government or corporate influence. The FBS would be charged with developing systems to defeat the current corporate communism/war systems that dominate and are ruining our world and future.

If people organize effectively together, it is not an impossible challenge only enormously difficult and one that is hard to visualize succeeding. That’s exactly what those now in power want us to believe.

It’s clear that governments can’t do it. As long as diffusion reigns, no such unity of effort stands a chance. We have to believe that the nearly impossible is possible. We have to believe that those of us who truly care about our fellow world citizens can eventually bring enough of humanity together to save our future.

The first step would be to convince our blogger leaders like Glenn that it is possible, then encourage them to organize a convention to discuss the steps that would be needed. A constitutional convention for world citizen leaders. I would much rather give my money to such a cause than to political representatives most of whom will become corrupted and not represent me but those currently in power.