Henry Giroux: Winter in America Democracy Gone Rouge

Posted on Mar 12, 2010 by MikeLynn

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Democracy in the United States is experiencing both a crisis of meaning and a legitimation crisis. As the promise of an aspiring democracy is sacrificed more and more to corporate and military interests, democratic spheres have largely been commercialized and democratic practices have been reduced to market relations, stripped of their worth and subject to the narrow logics of commodification and profit making. Empowerment has little to do with providing people with the knowledge, skills, and power to shape the forces and institutions that bear down on their lives and is now largely defined as under the rubric of being a savvy consumer. When not equated with the free market capitalism, democracy is reduced to the empty rituals of elections largely shaped by corporate money and indifferent to relations of power that make a mockery out of equality, democratic participation and collective deliberation.

URL: http://www.truthout.org/winter-america-democracy-gone-rogue57353

Ref: http://www.truthout.org/winter-america-democracy-gone-rogue57353

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