How American Democracy Became the Property of a Commercial Oligarchy
Lewis H. Lapham, TomDispatch: ''Happily, at least for the moment, the society is rich enough to afford the staging of the fiction of democracy as a means of quieting the suspicions of a potentially riotous mob with the telling of a fairy tale.... The country is being asked to vote in November for television commercials because only in the fanciful time zone of a television commercial can the American democracy still be said to exist.''
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11656-feast-of-fools-how-american-democracy-became-the-property-of-a-commercial-oligarchy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=oligarch
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http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11656-feast-of-fools-how-american-democracy-became-the-property-of-a-commercial-oligarchy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=oligarch
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Starmail - 20. Sep, 22:54
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