As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe - NYTimes.com
Abstract: ”Protesters around the world have something in common: wariness, even contempt, toward traditional politicians and the democratic political process they preside over.”
Mr. Levi, born on Degania, Israel’s first kibbutz, said the protests were not acts of anger but of reclamation, of a society hijacked by a class known in Hebrew as “hon veshilton,” meaning a nexus of money and politics. The rise of market forces produced a sense of public disengagement, he said, a feeling that the job of a citizen was limited to occasional trips to the polling places to vote.
“The political system has abandoned its citizens,” Mr. Levi said. “We have lost a sense of responsibility for one another.”
Wow, good word.
