Matthew's+Democracy+in+America

media type="file" key="Buffalo Springfield - For What Its Worth.mp3" width="240" height="20" "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield (1967)

"Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835/40 ([|Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University])

“enough property to want order and not enough to excite envy” (de Tocqueville, 636) Middle-class American home in the 50's. ([|Life.com])



Slug ( [|Oregon Live] )

Free Speech March ([|Re Tea Party])

“nothing more than oscillation to and fro” (de Tocqueville, 642) “violent political passions have little hold on men” (de Tocqueville, 638) **American Democracy --> Conservatism & Self-Interest --> Silence --> Conformity --> Self-oppression** ([|The Aquilian])

Matthew's Democracy in America Reflection