People have been taught to expect far more from government than from freedom. - James Bovard

Instead of revealing the “will of the people,” election results are often only a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions.

Trusting government nowadays means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other people’s lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives.

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