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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
-C. Wright Mills
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Not Wishing To Be Disturbed Over Moral

C. Wright Mills
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
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