“People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"” PeopleThinkingWayCharacterPoliticalAsksGamesFunPoliticianAthenaAries Author:Zephyr Teachout
“What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.” ShouldLawPoliticalCompanyRolesResearchMaps Author:Zephyr Teachout
“I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.” PeopleThinkingReasonPoliticalModernPoeticDiscourseStrainDroppingPolitical DiscourseDropping Out Author:Zephyr Teachout
“A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".” PeopleThinkingCharacterPoliticalLanguageFunSecretLike YouPoliticianMythAthenaAries Author:Zephyr Teachout
“There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.” LongGovernmentPoliticalTurnsDemocracyEconomicTraditionTendenciesSuspicionEconomic PowerPlutocracyAmerican TraditionCorrupt Government Book:Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United Source: Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
