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“If people are sufficiently intimidated, if the popular organizations are sufficiently destroyed, if the people have had it beaten into their heads that either they accept the rule of those with the guns or else they live and die in unrelieved misery, than your elections will all come out the way you want. And everybody will cheer.”
― Noam Chomsky, Secrets, Lies and Democracy

“For example, one of the effects of the so-called free trade agreement with Canada was to stimulate a big flow of jobs from Canada to the southeast US, because that's an essentially nonunion area. Wages are lower; you don't have to worry about benefits; workers can barely organize. So that's an attack against Canadian workers.”
― Noam Chomsky, Secrets, Lies and Democracy

“As I mentioned earlier, they don't want decision-makers and participants; they want a passive, obedient population of consumers and political spectators—a community of people who are so atomized and isolated that they can't put together their limited resources and become an independent, powerful force that will chip away at concentrated power.”
― Noam Chomsky, Secrets, Lies and Democracy

“That's a dramatic example of the efficiency with which business controls US ideology, of how effective its propaganda and indoctrination have been in depriving people of any awareness of their own rights and history.
You have to wait for poor Latino and Chinese workers to celebrate an international holiday of solidarity with American workers.”
― Noam Chomsky, Secrets, Lies and Democracy