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Keep in mind, democracy and capitalism are two different things. Democracy is not an economic system. It's a political system. The conservatives actively promote the idea that democracy and capitalism are the same thing, or that capitalism is a political system. Whenever capitalism is used as a political system, it is a tyranny. It's rule by the rich. And that's why it's important to balance capitalism with democracy, which is what Roosevelt did.
-- Thom Hartmann. "Crimes against democracy," The Sun, (June 2005) issue 354, p.10.
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