Article: Our debased democracies
In the British newspaper "The Daily Telegraph", senior conservative(!) journalist Charles Moore wrote on 22 July:
"What with the the phone-hacking scandal, the eurozone crisis and the US economic woes, the greedy few have left people disillusioned with our debased democracies. [...]
"Democratic politics, which purports to enrich the many, is actually in the pocket of those bankers, media barons and other moguls who run and own everything. [...]
"[P]eople in general have lost faith in the free-market, Western, democratic order. They have not yet, thank God, transferred their faith, as they did in the 1930s, to totalitarianism. They merely feel gloomy and suspicious. [...]
"The greatest capitalist country in history is now dependent on other people’s capital to survive. In such circumstances, Western democracy starts to feel like a threatened luxury. We can wave banners about 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness', but they tend to say, in smaller print, 'Made in China'."
In the British newspaper "The Daily Telegraph", senior conservative(!) journalist Charles Moore wrote on 22 July:
"What with the the phone-hacking scandal, the eurozone crisis and the US economic woes, the greedy few have left people disillusioned with our debased democracies. [...]
"Democratic politics, which purports to enrich the many, is actually in the pocket of those bankers, media barons and other moguls who run and own everything. [...]
"[P]eople in general have lost faith in the free-market, Western, democratic order. They have not yet, thank God, transferred their faith, as they did in the 1930s, to totalitarianism. They merely feel gloomy and suspicious. [...]
"The greatest capitalist country in history is now dependent on other people’s capital to survive. In such circumstances, Western democracy starts to feel like a threatened luxury. We can wave banners about 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness', but they tend to say, in smaller print, 'Made in China'."
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