NPR On the Media co-host Bob Garfield lit into the cozy relationship between the press and the politicians they’re supposed to be covering on this Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN. CNN generally does a really terrible job of naval-gazing when it comes to critiquing the problems with their own network, but no one was spared during…
“(It’s) a republic, if you can keep it.”
In the beginning (1787) only white, male, landowners had the right to vote. (That was Franklin’s vision.)
republic–Latin, “res publica” or the public thing(s).
democracy–Greek, “demos and kratein” or the people rule.
In 2016 only wealthy, white, males and females (1%) control our political system.
The oligarchs.