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Economy

merrily

(45,251 posts)

2. Bread and circus. Keep the hoi polloi entertained and minimally fed.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 28, 2015, 04:01 PM

Sep 2015

The knew it in Ancient Rome. The French and Russian royals forgot. FDR and LBJ did not forget. New Democrats may have.

And thank heaven for TV and the internet. They beat the Colisseum.

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Saving Capitalism, For the Many, Not the Few, Robert Reich [View all] mother earth Sep 2015 OP

Capitalism always concentrates wealth into the fewest hands Warpy Sep 2015 #1

Bread and circus. Keep the hoi polloi entertained and minimally fed. merrily Sep 2015 #2

For Later reading tnlurker Sep 2015 #3

I love Reich, but I think he's missing it here. What he says is true, but... Gregorian Sep 2015 #4

Your line of thinking is much more in line with Richard D. Wolff's (DemocracyatWork.info), mother earth Sep 2015 #5

You're right on the money. Gregorian Sep 2015 #6