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"Something new has come to confront American democracy… This is our proudest boast: 'The American citizen has more comforts and conveniences than kings had two hundred years ago.' It is a fact and this fact is the outward evidence of the new force which has crossed the path of American democracy. The increasing stream of automobiles and radios,buildings and bathrooms,furs and furniture,liners,hotels,bridges,vacuum cleaners…these are the signs… Consumptionism is bringing it about that the American citizen's first importance to his country is no longer that of citizen but that of consumer."
Samuel Strauss,"Things Are in the Saddle," Atlantic Monthly,1924
-Disagreements over the implications of the situation described in the passage served to increase

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The excerpt describes how consumptionism has become a new force in American democracy and that the importance of American citizens has shifted from citizen to consumer. This could lead to disagreements over the role of government in regulating consumerism, ultimately leading to calls for a stronger regulatory system.

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