Country Governance Quotes
At the time, the CIA was covertly financing and organizing opposition to Allende. Nonetheless, he won the election but the CIA organized a coup d’etat and removed him.
The strongman President of Egypt promised the he would lift the martial law after the last election 6 years before. He did not. Under Mubarach. Egypt has had martial law for 30 years.
4 years later Roosevelt was so disgusted with Taft that he ran against him in the Republican Primary and the General Election where he polled more votes than Taft but they both lost to Woodrow Wilson when the Republican vote was split.
Sinclair had written The Jungle which was an expose of the meat packing industry which at the time was brutal for the workers and unhealthy and unsanitary for the consumers. The book was exceedingly popular and there were many cries for reform and regulation. Sinclair however was continuing pressuring President Roosevelt who he did not think was acting fast enough. After the telegram, Roosevelt got the first Pure Food & Drug Commission created legislatively.
This quotation illustrates the "winner take all" conceopt of many political cultures that call themselves and think of theselves as a democracy. But a true democracy does not allow a tyranny of the majority--especially a very narrow minority.
