People, let us face the historical reality. Great Wealth has *always* dominated our country, from colonial times to the present. Whether private or corporate, the influence on public policy has gone largely unattenuated.
It may be ironic, but at this high tide of corporate power, we have never had a more democratic society; race, gender, age, property ownership are no bar to voting. All these barriers of the past have been swept away.
What is at a nadir point is popular involvement, not democracy. What remains at an ebb is active organization and participation among a consistently high proportion of voters. The numbers who remain silent and passive are the problem, not corporate greed.
Willful ignorance generally couples with indifference to kill democracy. There are indeed other factors as well, but at the heart of the matter it is not corporate influence that threatens our nation--it is citizen detachment.
"The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the stars, but in ourselves."
It may be ironic, but at this high tide of corporate power, we have never had a more democratic society; race, gender, age, property ownership are no bar to voting. All these barriers of the past have been swept away.
What is at a nadir point is popular involvement, not democracy. What remains at an ebb is active organization and participation among a consistently high proportion of voters. The numbers who remain silent and passive are the problem, not corporate greed.
Willful ignorance generally couples with indifference to kill democracy. There are indeed other factors as well, but at the heart of the matter it is not corporate influence that threatens our nation--it is citizen detachment.
"The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the stars, but in ourselves."
--Lincoln Log
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