“Day by day the money-masters of America become more aware of their danger, they draw together, they grow more class-conscious, more aggressive. American political corruption was the buying up of legislatures and assemblies to keep them from doing the people’s will and protecting the people’s interests; it was the exploiter entrenching himself in power, it was financial autocracy undermining and destroying political democracy.”
Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check, 1919
Excellent quote and a very accurate assessment of what is wrong with America.
The quote below by Upton Sinclair is relevant to the current state of journalism throughout the western world.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Sinclair, Upton (1994). I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Upton Sinclair was a Leftist, and all of his statements and writings are the among the roots of Leftist policy.