“[W]e have all these myths... about a Democratic society... [W]e have been disintegrating our Democratic institutions for over 40 years.”

—  Ralph Nader

"American Mythology and the Loss of Democracy" (2018)

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American consumer rights activist and corporate critic 1934

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