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If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. and if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests, the powerful people and institutions of society, take it all. that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. then we give up. then we are 100 percent plutocracy.
-Robert Reich
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If You Give Up On Politics, You're

Robert Reich
If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. and if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests, the powerful people and institutions of society, take it all. that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. then we give up. then we are 100 percent plutocracy.
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