In recent decades, the peaceful revolution that is so important to the long-term success of democratic governments and those countries they serve has been hijacked by special interests. No longer is the old guard being replaced with fresh new faces who bring vigor and passion to their work.
Rather, many democratic governments are now completely beholden to powerful groups within their country, which bankroll politicians’ campaigns in an effort to keep things exactly the way they are, because the status quo is already making these groups rich beyond belief.
This has left many democracies unable to respond to the needs of the countries and people they govern or to the global challenges that the past century has pres
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