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Trilateral Commission

Social critic and academic Noam Chomsky has criticised the commission as undemocratic, pointing to its publication The Crisis of Democracy which describes the strong popular interest in politics during the 1970s as an "excess of democracy".[12] He continues calling the document "one of the most interesting and insightful books on topic on the modern democratic system."[13]

Essentially liberal internationalists from Europe, Japan and the United States, the liberal wing of the intellectual elite. That's where Jimmy Carter's whole government came from. [...] [The Trilateral Commission] was concerned with trying to induce what they called "more moderation in democracy"—turn people back to passivity and obedience so they don't put so many constraints on state power and so on. In particular they were worried about young people. They were concerned about the institutions responsible for the indoctrination of the young (that's their phrase), meaning schools, universities, church and so on—they're not doing their job, [the young are] not being sufficiently indoctrinated. They're too free to pursue their own initiatives and concerns and you've got to control them better