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Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

We're not a democracy.