It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalated in this country in contrast to Europe. (They're similar societies and it's bad enough there, but here we're in the stratosphere. ] There's no particular reason for it.

In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature.

An effective regulatory system today would be one guided by a few basic premises that can be applied flexibly but also universally.

Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.

More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive from their heads evil ideas, such as the belief that wage labor was not much different from chattel slavery. That continues to the present, now sometimes taking the form of an attack on public education.