Sentences with phrase «like oligarchy»

In practice, however, the US acts more like an oligarchy — at least according to the research performed by Martin Gilens (professor of politics at Princeton) and Benjamin Page (the Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making at Northwestern University).

Not exact matches

It's for reasons like this that a German documentarian named Ulli Wendelmann, known for hard - hitting exposés on the German prison system and Russia's oligarchy, recently filmed a documentary examining the oddball marriage between the New York startup and the former East German factory.

you can also fill the airwaves of all these surrounding nations with disruptive ideas / propaganda like freedom of the press, individual liberty, economic opportunity, etc. — dangerous ideas to the surrounding kleptocracies / oligarchies.

«It's like something out of a tin - pot oligarchy.»

Sounds like a Muslim theocracy to me — our version is just an evangelical oligarchy instead.

Imagine if people like Michelle Bachman, Kent Hovind, or Pat Robertson had their way, and there was no such thing as separation of church from state to hold them back from brainwashing our children, persecuting non-believers like they did in medieval times, and turning our country into a Christian oligarchy.

Jonathan Marshall of the Oakland Tribune concluded that «President Endara's appointments read like a who's who of Panama's oligarchy.

In a not so festive season when we've all been thinking hard about a lot of terrible thinkings like corrupt governments and oligarchies, sexual misconduct and systemic isms that make life such an oppressive mess for so many people (and damage everyone — even the opporessors — since we all are truly in this life together) as well as the terror of both climate change and this particular cold snap (I'm super sick right now, yay!)

Just like any other oligarchy, decisions are top down with no input from the masses.

The oligarchy faced a fact, parents liked their schools.

Looks like Rolls Royce are in partnership with that purveyor of ultimate automotive taste and discretion to the Russian oligarchy and minor Saudi royalty: Mansory: --RRB-

However, the folks who don't like what you, the aforementioned and I say seem to simply be venting from the perspective of conditioned thinking, assuming that we are their particular enemies, when in fact we are trying to engage the slumbering areas of their brains into actually waking up to the reality of how the bureaucrats are insidiously creating an entrenched Oligarchy of «We know what is best for you all» controllers who have very little respect for their dues payers.