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Democratic elections require that votes are supreme, not big-money. They require contested candidacies, not a two-party duopoly that increasingly reflects the same commercial interests.

— Ralph Nader American Mythology and the Loss of Democracy (2018)

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We must strive to become good ancestors.

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Half of democracy is about just showing up.

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American politicians over the past 25 years have learned to quietly dismiss big rallies, demonstrations, and even temporary occupations, because they have gone nowhere.

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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

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