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James Bovard on Democracy

born 1956 United States

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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994)

Democracy unleashes the State in the name of the people.

The more that democracy is assumed to be inevitable, the more likely it will self-destruct.

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance and arrogance that pave the way to political collapse.

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