Sentences with phrase «economic elite»

For decades, arrogant economic elites have told voters and communities negatively impacted by free trade deals that they simply failed to appreciate the benefits of the global economy.

John P. McCormick: I think that a lack of the kind of class consciousness that was characteristic of the ancient Roman and medieval Florentine republics — in particular, the lack of a thorough - going distrust and resentment of the political influence of economic elites within modern republics — is the single greatest barrier to a revival of Machiavellian democratic republicanism today.

he report warns that political and economic elites in key emitting countries are turning to geoengineering as a would - be technological fix for the climate crisis, at the same time they refuse to break with an economic model based on fossil fuels and high emissions.

That includes Attorney General candidate Jeff Sessions, who argues that legal immigration primarily benefits economic elites at the expense of workers, but has also made racist statements.

At the same time, however, the politico - economic elites within the military - industrial complexes of the super, imperialistic, and hegemonic powers must confess their sin of destroying the pond, the Korean peninsula, of destroying a beautiful and integral part of God's creation for their own political and economic ends.

Politics in America, in Frank's analysis, used to be» and still ought to be» the way the Populists of the 1890s and progressive interests up into the 1960s imagined it: the liberal masses» workers, farmers, and all but the cream of the middle class» arrayed against the conservative economic elites.

When this happens the poor will be further victimized and U.S. economic elites can be expected to use racism and ideological campaigns blaming the victim to take attention away from their own role in managing a crisis in defense of their own interests.

Popular dissatisfaction with the entire Ukrainian political and economic elites finally spilled out in the social revolution played out in the Maidan in Kyiv in recent months.

Accepting this slogan risks failing to learn from a rich republican tradition, whose insights are relevant to many of the social and economic problems being encountered today, not simply the emergence of a super-wealthy economic elite.

Top on the agenda of a forward - looking economic elite will be «Silicon Savannah» projects, which hope to make Kenya an innovative ICT hub for the wider continent of Africa.

This is the sense of political entitlement which triangulation breeds amongst economic elites: an expectation not just that political leaders will perpetually «position'themselves but that they will take the «right» positions.

Doing the right thing, at the right time, with the right means would have our political / economic elites promoting a single - payer health insurance system.

Not content with engineering a decade of income redistribution from the middle class to the tiny economic elite, you now want to take away freedom too and make all workers slaves to the great corporate Moloch.

Ten years after the end of the «Great Tokyo War» that rocked Japan, most of the country's political and economic elites mysteriously vanish.

«The study found that while economic elites» and business groups» preferences often result in policy changes, public opinion has virtually no influence on policy outcomes.

Humanity, particularly today's established economic elite, has a lot of work to do.

If it survives at all, it is likely to be - as earlier in history - an activity for a much smaller economic elite.»

The theologies of liberation that emerged from this region in the «70s and «80s evolved from the organized poor, who suffered repression at the hands of economic elites and their U.S. - financed military forces.

Repentance was far from the minds of U.S. military planners and economic elites in the post-Vietnam period.

In the case of «unjust» foreign court decisions, this initiative was portrayed by some commentators as an attempt to protect the interests of Russia's economic elite at the expense of tax - paying citizens.

Where economic elites in previous centuries may have used social Darwinism and even religion to explain away economic inequality, from the 1950s on economic elites have intentionally and strategically spread the gospel of Economics 101 throughout American political and popular culture in a similar way.

More ominously, it's a threat to the social fabric, widening the divide between the economic elite and everybody else.

Perhaps the media moguls in charge of newsrooms across the continent are feeling the sway of this uncomfortable squirming from the economic elites.

If this is what theology is coming to affirm — that God is working providentially through American foreign policy to advance an ultimate divine plan that is consonant with the interests of an economic elite — then this is a God who might need to be ushered off the stage.

Low - intensity conflict uses elections to create an image of democracy while continuing to assign real power to U.S. officials and military and economic elites.

«Formal» democracies (that is, governments where the army and the economic elites have retreated to run things from behind the scenes).

His endorsement of the social status quo and the dominant power structure endeared him to the nation «s political and economic elites.

Although the New Deal Democracy is often seen as an economic coalition of the «have - nots» against the economic elite, FDR's alignment was also a classic example of ethnocultural politics, an alliance of southern evangelical Protestants, northern Catholics and Jews, black Protestants, and the small secular population.

Global capitalism is seeking to convert all those who aren't computer scientists or physicians into low - or no - pay serfs serving the economic elites without any hope of having a life of their own.

In electing Trump, the American precariat has manifested perhaps an unconscious collective desire to make the economic elite — the untouchable 0.1 percent that has ravaged their lives — politically accountable.

And it must be complimented by a fairer distribution of capital and assets, an «ownership revolution'that locates control over wealth throughout society instead of narrowly rewarding the political and economic elite.

In Greece and Cyprus, the privatisation measures imposed by creditors have benefited big private investors while many feel the political and economic elites have been spared by the drastic austerity measures affecting the countries.

In the opposing corner is the country's economic elite, stirred up by industry lobbies and alternative right - wing movements.

He called on the leaders to sustain the fight against corruption, noting that studies had shown that the leadership elite had been forming alliance with the economic elite, and the traditional rulers to perpetuate themselves in power.

«While many of the economic elites on the North Shore have been celebrating the development that's happening here, calling it the «North Shore renaissance,» on the streets, people are grieving,» Marius previously told DNAinfo New York.

They conclude that «economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass - based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence.»

Bernie Sanders is scaring the crap right out of the economic elite.

Those that survive, or deserve to, for the next generation or so must be aimed at the demographic constituencies that legitimately need extra help, not those that already qualify as the economic elite.

The supposedly populist candidate — who won re-election promising to tax the rich, protect Social Security, and make the economy fair — has morphed back into an invaluable ally of the economic elite.

«While many of the economic elites on the North Shore have been celebrating the development that's happening here, calling it the «North Shore renaissance,» on the streets, people are grieving,» Marius said.

There's no question that Stefanik would be a better representative for the interests of the economic elite than Funiciello.

Desolate Remain campaign boss Will Straw dubbed the astonishing result «a wake up call for the political and economic elites».