Democracy: America's Oldest Spectator Sport

Noam Chomsky discusses the limits of civic participation in the U.S., and the extensive efforts that political and business elites have made to keep it that way.

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• bigthink

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Something people need to remember is that capitalism leans towards grand

multinational corporations. Many owners develop a profiit-before-anything viewpoint,lose any social conscience, and are almost certain to manipulate, lobby,boycott,influence,and bribe, in order to get their proposals in place. This leads to the furtherance of their power and near monopolies. Right or wrong, as it stands, this is what elements of capitalism promote.