If You Give Up On Democracy, You

If You Give Up On Politics, You're Giving Up On Democracy. And If You Give Up On Democracy, You're Basically Saying To The Moneyed Interests, The Powerful People And Institutions Of Society, Take It All. That's A Self-fulfilling Prophecy. Then We Give Up. Then We Are 100 Percent Plutocracy.

We're Now Moving Toward A Radically Different Economy. You Absolutely Can't Have A Distribution Oligopoly. The New Oligopolies - And I Think There Will Be New Oligopolies - Will Be Oligopolies Of Trustworthiness. Microsoft, Amazon, Schwab, And Other Brands Will Dominate Psychic Space, Not Shelf Space.

The Only Way To Grow The Economy In A Way That Benefits The Bottom 90 Percent Is To Change The Structure Of The Economy. At The Least, This Requires Stronger Unions And A Higher Minimum Wage.

I Think That In Politics, When People Want To Discredit A Particular Position, They Say, "oh, They Are Liberals," Or "they Are Conservatives; We Are Centrists." Everybody Wants To Be A Centrist.

If You Ever Want To Get A Sense Of Your Own Personal Failure, Look At Yourself Trying To Get Across A Point That Nobody Is Listening To And The Situation Gets Worse And Worse.