"You can go to any major history and see the effect of unregulation. The very point of developing regulation around industrial society was that they were not only exploiting the workers to death they were befouling the planet, so regulation came because of that. What the right wing wants is for the public to have this role in the societal debate over balance of these issues and no power. The public power to confront these errors of industry is government regulation."
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Interview (4 November 1994) quoted in Backlash Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement (1996), p. 51
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Chip Berlet
John Foster "Chip" Berlet (November 22, 1949 – January 30, 2026) was an American investigative journalist, research analyst, photojournalist, scholar, and activist specializing in the study of extreme right-wing movements in the United States.
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