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As a society, we encourage selfishness. We expect people to be interested primarily in their private or family welfare, with little concern for community needs. The care of the sick, old, disturbed, or poor, for example—a task that most societies take for granted—is carried out grudgingly, carelessly, or not at all.

— Philip Slater

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Americans need to wake up to the fact that right-wing Republicans don't believe in democracy and never have.

Instead of using money to serve ourselves, we use ourselves to serve money.

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Everyone talks about democracy, but few people have any idea why it exists, why it is happening now, or where it will lead. Most people see it as a merely political phenomenon—which is a little like seeing TV as merely an electrical phenomenon.

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