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We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

— Jimmy Carter

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

— Pat Robertson

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

— Alex Pareene

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.

— Deborah Kass

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

— Tom Ford

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

— Ronald Reagan

We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

— Aaron McGruder

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

— Michael Moore

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

— Winston Churchill

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

— Taki Theodoracopulos

✗Opposing Perspectives

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.

— Tom Metzger