Claims: noam chomsky in public awareness

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21 May 2021
The general public is well aware that the government works for special interests rather than the people.

Well, maybe I'm naive, but I have more faith in the public than that. My feeling is that the general public is rather well aware of this, and I think it shows up in public opinion study in the United States, mainly because business wants to keep its finger on the public pulse. They want to know what people are thinking. So we have a pretty trustworthy and very extensive bully industry. And what comes out of public attitudes, I think, is kind of revealing. So for the last 20 years or so, about 80% of the population, when they're asked, what do you think the country, you know, who runs the government or what does it do? The answer that they pick out of a set of choices is the government works for the few and the special interests, not the people.