The only way for America to remain a democracy is to forgo its foreign policy. Either its world strategy must become inward-looking or its political structure must become more centralized.

The ruling elites don’t care about right or left. They hate all dissidents.

I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other so they can keep their grasp of money and power.

[…] you got a decrepit electoral political system that is colonized by big money, but you still have to be able to intervene and try to stay in contact with those few politicians who are concerned about poor and working people.

The real business of ruling is hidden, carried out by corporate lobbyists who write the legislation, banks that loot the Treasury, the war industry, and an oligarchy that determines who gets elected and who does not.

The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.