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Paul Wellstone

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Paul Wellstone

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Paul Wellstone is saying that in the United States, a small group of powerful people holds too much control compared to the general population. This unequal distribution of power is the main danger to the functioning of American democracy.

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