Democracy For All (Irony Not Included)

"In this respect, the United States represents the form toward which capitalist democracy is tending; related tendencies include the progressive elimination of unions and other popular organizations that interfere with private power, an electoral system that is increasingly stage-managed as a public relations exercise, avoidance of welfare measures such as national health insurance that also impinge on the prerogatives of the privileged, and so on. From this perspective, it is reasonable for Cyrus Vance and Henry Kissinger to describe the United States as "a model democracy," democracy being understood as a system of business control of political as well as other major institutions.

Other Western democracies are generally a few steps behind in these respects. Most have not yet achieved the U.S. system of one political party, with two factions controlled by shifting segments of the business community."

Chomsky, Noam. "Containing the Enemy." The Essential Chomsky. Ed. Anthony Arnove. London: The Bodley Head, 2008. 257-58. Print.

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