2014-10-21 US: No longer a "democracy"
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Not really news. Former Prez Jimmy Carter famously announced the same in 2013. Carter is a bit more acute in his diagnosis than the Pricenton researchers. They see only an oligarchy of capital owners.
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Carter identifed the underlying cause: Takeover by the security apparatus. Jimmy Carter: US “has no functionin democracy”, Salonhttp://www.salon.com/2013/07/18/jimmy_carter_us_has_no_functioning_democracy_partner/
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Not really news. Former Prez Jimmy Carter famously announced the same in 2013. Carter is a bit more acute in his diagnosis than the Pricenton researchers. They see only an oligarchy of capital owners.
LINKS
Carter identifed the underlying cause: Takeover by the security apparatus. Jimmy Carter: US “has no functionin democracy”, Salonhttp://www.salon.com/2013/07/18/jimmy_carter_us_has_no_functioning_democracy_partner/
A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists.
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