Democracy is an illusion! It’s become a political system fostered by the élite, for the élite, in order to fool the people that they have a stake in the system. In actual fact, they have virtually none. The whole political system in the modern era, despite having noble beginnings, is now used to benefit the few at the expense of the many. – Mark Alexander, June 29, 2018
August 03, 2020
Paul Krugman on the State of the US Economy | Amanpour and Company
In his latest column for the New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes that the disaster unfolding in America "is what happens when you put a horrible boss in charge of running the country, and nobody can say when, if ever, the damage will be repaired."