Franklin Foer - It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible...

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It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.

Franklin Foer

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Es ist sehr unamerikanisch, nette Dinge über Eliten zu sagen. Eliten sind oft schrecklich. Es ist nicht so, als hätten wir jemals ein perfektes Set von wohlwollenden demokratischen Eliten gehabt, die über unser Land herrschen. Tatsache ist jedoch, dass ein repräsentatives System der Demokratie die Macht an die Eliten delegiert.

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