EugeneJarecki on Nostr: Amen to that. Direct democracy was America’s founding strength. Our ...

Amen to that. Direct democracy was America’s founding strength. Our military-imperial potential, which even Washington himself warned against, was our founding flaw. This culminated with Eisenhower’s warning against the military-industrial complex. But his fuller warning goes further, cautioning us against “selfish pressure groups” who use “the power of concentrated finance” to hold the nation’s priorities “captive.”