Democracy Quote by Bruce Cannon Gibney

“The Boomers’ numerosity meant that even a modest tilt in any one direction (self-serving sociopathy, as a pointed example) influenced outcomes profoundly. In matters…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

“And Boomer (and thus American) politics will continue to be driven by life cycle, with the Boomers’ desire to maintain old-age benefits overriding all…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

“More than anything, Boomer influence is a story of sheer numbers. As of the early 1980s, when the Boomer revolution really kicked off, the…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

“What establishes the Boomers as a political generation is that the Boomers’ overriding policy ambitions have been defined not in conventional terms like race…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

“The baby boomer generation, my own, is content, if of the Left, to live out our remaining years upon the work and upon the…

— David Mamet

“The nonsociopathic wing of the Boomer generation may also find value in seeing the acts of their contemporaries in a different light and be…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

“That the economy has failed to live up to its promise is bad enough. That the Boomers have not made investments in future prosperity…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

“The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“Nowhere did sociopathic avarice, deceit, imprudence, and political power combine more powerfully than in tax policy, which allowed the Boomers to reshuffle in their…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

“America: An ongoing experiment in democracy controlled largely by insanely wealthy people. And that's just the way we like it, thank you very much.”

— James Napoli

“I wanted to believe that as generations turned over, those coming into economic and political power would build a different, better, more expansive world,…

— Anna Wiener

“Feelings would be the great enabler, allowing Boomers to undermine the whole edifice of fact and reason in favor of personal truth, expedient and…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney