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" We have become just
spectators, even voyeaurs ... [There's] a view that government
really doesn't matter, except as it provides occasional spectacular
entertainment. It is not good news for democracy."
Michael Sandel, author - Democracy's
Discontent
" In feudal times, kings
and lords held power through divine right. To challenge their
authority was to oppose God, a heresy worthy of death. Now enlightened,
we view such notions as foolish. Yet the divine right of yore
has been replaced by a pantheon of free market verities whose
lock on popular thought is so strong that heresy can be kept in
check through ridicule."
Joel Bleifuss, In These Times
magazine
" Americans cannot teach
democracy to the world until they restore their own."
William Greider
" The top of the American
system of power is much more unified and much more powerful, the
bottom is much more fragmented, and in truth, impotent, than is
generally supposed. "
C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite
" The power elite are
those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate
set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national
consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power
elite are those who decide them. "
C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite
" Congress is controlled
by right-wing Republican Nazis."
Eric Alterman, in the The Nation
magazine, April 19, 1999, quoting a long-time Washington lobbyest
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