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> [So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/so-yes-in-theory-there-is-a-kind-of-a-formal-democracy-and-in-many/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/in-latin-america-specialists-and-polling-organisations-have-for-some/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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