Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
NOAM CHOMSKYAll over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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