Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government.
Washington Monthly › Vol. 26 Nbr. 3, March 1994
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Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government.
At the highest levels of government, the power to decide things has gravitated from the many to the few. Instead of popular will, the government now responds more often to narrow webs of power." Who said that? A) William Greider, B) Kevin Phillips, C) Dan Quayle, or D) Bill Clinton? Actually, that's a Greider line, but it could just as well be all of the above. The idea that a narrow elite or collection of special interests is thwarting democracy and mining the Republic has by now become such a commonplace that asserting it reveals little or nothing about the speaker's politics. The 1990s are becoming the "T...
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