The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.