American Insomniac Quotes

“At-will employees work at the will of the employer, with no legal claim to their job or to any compensation if they are fired or laid off. This means that employers can fire an employee without advanced notice, reason and without any other pay obligation other than the time they have”
― Jim Smith, American Insomniac: Reflections on the future of a dying democracy

“The United States is the land of mass incarceration. Over 2,200,000 adults are in jail or prison at any given time in the U.S., the largest incarcerated population in the world.”
― Jim Smith, American Insomniac: Reflections on the future of a dying democracy

“The U.S. has never been a true democracy – it was designed and built as a republic using representative institutions in order to make sure that the elite and their special interests would always be in charge.”
― Jim Smith, American Insomniac: Reflections on the future of a dying democracy

“Common usage of the term democracy is that it is a form of government whereby the citizens have control or exercise power by directly voting on issues, or indirectly, through representatives in some form of a governing body, make decisions, laws, and resolve issues of competing groups for the common good.”
― Jim Smith, American Insomniac: Reflections on the future of a dying democracy

“the forces of backwardness and repression have risen from the mire in various forms of nationalism, right-wing populism and nativism to cast the shadow of neofascism across the landscape of civil society.”
― Jim Smith, American Insomniac: Reflections on the future of a dying democracy