The Trilateral report: The crisis of democracy
In 1973, David Rockefeller founded the Trilateral Commission, a self-described group of "private citizens" of Western Europe, Japan and North America.
It commissioned Harvard centre director, Samuel P Huntington, to co-author a joint U.S.-Europe-Japan commissioned report, entitled, 'The crisis of democracy: Report on the governability of democracies to the Trilateral Commission'
The 1960s' 'democratic surge', said the report, had incited demands from the undeserving:
An 'excess of democracy'
Huntington went to great pains to explain that a large degree of non-involvement among marginal groups is required if democracy is to function:
To save democracy, said the report, democracy must be limited. The 'excess of democracy' must give way to 'desirable limits to [its] extension'.
A better balance must be struck between government and the "oppositional" force of the media.
First-Amendment protection of the media should be re-evaluated in the 'broader interests of society and government'.
The government's 'right and ability to withhold information at the source' should be exercised and, in the absence of voluntary journalistic restraint, 'the alternative could well be regulation by the government'
America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War II, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent.
The report summed up the threat thus: education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable.
To solve this problem: 'A decline in the saliency of school integration, welfare programs, law enforcement [would bring about] a decline in their group consciousness and hence their political participation'.
Expansion of higher education must be curtailed, the report advised.
Education must relate to 'economic development and future job opportunities' or 'lower job expectations'. And rather than allow workers' participation, employers should 'opt for job redesign'.
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