Progressive Commentary Hour - 03/05/12

Our delusional democracy and the failure of our Two-Party System Joel Hirschhorn is the author of Delusional Democracy: Fixing the Republic without Overthrowing the Government” and is a co-founder of Friends of the Article V Convention. He is a frequent commentator and writer on the need for a second American Revolution to restore American democracy and the need for reform constitutional amendments. Joel is a former senior official at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and National Governors Association, and a former full professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jim Garrison is the co-founder and president of Wisdom University and President of the State of the World Forum as part of the Gorbachev Foundation, which he co-founded. In 2000, he initiated the launch of the Commission on Globalization which challenged the existing global governance system and gathered leaders together to define viable alternatives. Jim has graduate degrees in religion and theology from Harvard and Cambridge universities, and is the author of “Civilization and the Transformation of Power” and “America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Nation”.