Who said this, and when?
This Administration is dominated and directed by wealth and for the accumulation of wealth. It runs smoothly like a well-organized industry and should do so because industry runs it for the benefit of industry. Corporate wealth profits as never before in history. We turn over the national resources to private profit and have few funds left for education, health or housing. Our crime, especially juvenile crime, is increasing. Its increase is perfectly logical; for a generation we have been teaching our youth to kill, destroy, steal and rape in war; what can we expect in peace? We let men take wealth which is not theirs; if the seizure is “legal” we call it high profits and the profiteers help decide what is legal. If the theft is “illegal” the thief can fight it out in court, with excellent chances to win if he receives the accolade of the right newspapers. Gambling in home, church and on the stock market is increasing and all prices are rising. It costs three times his salary to elect a Senator and many millions to elect a President. This money comes from the very corporations which today are the government.
Answer on the flip side.
W.E.B. Dubois, “Why I Won’t Vote” (originally published in The Nation, October 20, 1956)
File that under “Everything old is new again”?
My original title for this post was “Deja Vu all over again” – but that quote just caught my fancy and I had to get it in somehow.
It could make one despair, but listening to Bernie Sanders today gave me something to reflect on …
“The only right you don’t have is the right to give up.”
Well said, Senator.