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Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
