Who Will Tell The People: Book Analysis

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to organize into interest groups with needs the government could address.

However, the best laid plans... This has only given the powerful more ability to have its way. The unorganized and weak segments of society are victims and the monied interests "run the show." The result is a lawless government where clear-cut laws are muddied in negotiated exceptions. Laws are passed, but they are passed with such randomness that reliability is betrayed. In the end, this results in the breakdown of the principle that is so essential to democracy: equal protection of law. "Citizens are entitled to the presumption, regardless of their own economic an social status, regardless of whether they personally participate in the process of elections and public debate or decline to do so." This presumption has been radically compromised.

3) Ralph Nader's team of lawyers spend much of their time trying to get federal agencies to enforce their own laws. Meanwhile, on the other side of the tennis ...

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