HIGHTOWER: Thieves in High Places: "something has gone terribly wrong in our country. The essense of democracy � our power to control the decisions that affect us � has steadily been pilfered by corporate kleptocrats. They have gathered up our democratic powers piece by piece, taking these powers into their own private fiefdoms. These elites, backed by the political elites they have bought, now effectively control everything from our wages to war, from what's on the 'news' to who gets elected.
This has not taken place by 'pure chance,' but through deliberate filching � which has now devolved into wholesale looting. These Thieves in High Places, as I call them in my new book, have pulled of a slow-motion coup, radically wrenching America from being a people's republic to Kleptocrat Nation. "
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