Bertram M. Gross

“We, like the natural world, have become mere commodities in the hands of corporations to exploit until exhaustion or collapse. Elected officials are manufactured personalities and celebrities. We vote based on how we are made to feel about corporate political puppets. The puppets, Democrat and Republican, engage in hollow acts of political theater keep the fiction of the democratic state alive. There is, however, no national institution left that can accurately be described as democratic. Citizens, rather than participate in power, are permitted virtual opinions to preordained questions, a kind of participatory fascism as meaningless as voting on “American Idol.” Mass”
― Bertram M. Gross, Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America

“We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power.”
― Bertram M. Gross, Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America