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Professor Richard D. Wolff on jobs and democracy
Published on Dec 18, 2014
Why do so few American's vote? Wolff says it's because we're trained every workday that other people (powerful elites) make the decisions for us. Wolff describes how our anti-democratic economic system undermines America's ability to support a functional political democracy.