“As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.” DoeCountryGovernmentFormDemocracyPureDemocraticTyrannyConsentImperialismContradictoryForeignersForms Of GovernmentHypocriticalConsent Of The Governed Book:Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope Source: Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope
“A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.” IfsNationsLosesDemocracySticksRepublicDictatorshipImperialism Author:Chalmers Johnson