Noam Chomsky: Requiem for the American Dream
- Reduce Democracy (protect against public influence on policy)
- Shape ideology (keep the young from believing in democracies)
- Redesign the economy (more power to financial institutions)
- Shift the burden (reduce tax burden away from the super-wealthy)
- Attach solidarity (keep people separated and selfish)
- Run the [governmental] regulators (businesses [financial institutions] control business regulation
- Engineer elections (allow unlimited money into government)
- Keep the rabble in line (disallow democratization of the public)
- Manufacture consent (consumeristic society rather than a thoughtful public)
- Marginalize the population (take political voice away from the general public)
Do not kid yourself. This is where the United States is at. No longer are we a nation to be proud of. Rather, we have joined the infamous dictators that we once turned away from.