«[...] Well I'd love for the United States to be a functioning democracy and to be a good example for other countries. I don't believe the US has any right or any ability to put in place a democracy in any other country, nor do I Believe by the way that American democracy functions as a real democracy anymore. On the life and death issues nobody has asked the American people anything about all these wars for decades, and I can tell you, and I'm telling you authoritatively and truly, they lie about every goddamn thing about these wars. So that's not democracy, that's not democracy either. Everything is phony everything is narrative. On the war and peace issues the public has no say at all.
If you were to ask the American people now, and in fact Gallup does: “do you support Biden's foreign policy?” I think the support is, you can look it up, 25% to 35% perhaps, I don't even think it reaches 35%. Where's the Democracy in this? It's a game, this is the Deep State and they have their Wars and every war has been phony some Wars the American people are basically never told about [...]
They don't care at all about democracy, by the way, at all. They topple governments they don't like, that won't do their bidding. They topple democracies if they don't like them. They'll topple anybody that they don't like that's how it's worked all along [...]
China is not going to turn the us into a dictatorship, maybe the US will turn into a dictatorship, maybe it will just turn into a Plato plutocracy, maybe it will turn into a military industrial State as the complete dominance... I don't know but it's not going to come from China, it's going to come from inside that's where our risk is.»
---[Professor Jeffrey Sachs]