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Robert Reich (Labor Day 2020: The Power Shift)

If wealth continues to concentrate at the top, no one will be able to contain the corrupting influence of big money on the American system and the anger it unleashes. As Justice Louis D Brandeis once said, “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”

Robert Reich (Labor Day 2020: The Power Shift)
Privatising Democracy

“Power is being shifted from the many to the few”: Report exposes scope of the 1 percent’s attack on democracy – Salon.com

Big government talk aside, the 1 percent’s real victim is democracy itself, Democracy Initiative experts tell Salon

Source: “Power is being shifted from the many to the few”: Report exposes scope of the 1 percent’s attack on democracy – Salon.com