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| 9 of 9 results found for - "James Bovard" | [Quote No.71348] Need Area: Money > Tax
"[Politics; Morality and ethics:] Democracy must be something more than two [hungry] wolves and a [fat] sheep voting on what to have for dinner. [Might is not right, which is why all democracies require a Bill of Rights that even a majority cannot vote to deny the constitutionally-agreed rights to any minority - even a minority of one - within that society.]" - James Bovard
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"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] Hate speech laws usually begin by targeting a few words that almost no one approves. Once the system for controlling and punishing 'hate speech' is put into place, there is little or nothing to stop it from expanding to punish more and more types of everyday speech." - James Bovard
(1956 - ), American libertarian author and lecturer.
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"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." - James Bovard
(1994)
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"[Keeping informed about politics and economics is a responsibility in a democracy if you want your vote to count for something.]
Political scientist Michael Delli Carpini, after analyzing thousands of voter surveys, told the Washington Post that there was 'virtually no relationship' between the political issues that low-knowledge voters said 'matter most to them and the positions of the candidates they voted for on those issues. It was as if their vote was random.'
...Citizens’ ignorance may be increasing as fast as politicians’ spending...
Total [U.S.] government spending has increased from $61.9 billion in 1950, or $410 per person, to $2,257 billion in 1994, or $8,681 per person. In inflation-adjusted terms, this is an increase in spending of more than 700 percent.
The annual Federal Register has gone from 7,417 pages in 1947 to 69,364 in 1996. The Code of Federal Regulations is now 14 times larger than it was in 1950. The Republican Party platform was 14 times longer in 1996 than it was in 1948.
While the amount of citizens’ knowledge about government and politics appears stagnant, the amount of government spending, laws, and regulations has soared...
The growth of government is like the spread of a dense jungle, and the average citizen is able to mentally hack his way through less and less of that jungle every year.
The larger the government, the more the average citizen and average voter is at the intellectual mercy of his rulers. And the more ignorant the voters, the easier it becomes for politicians to treat people like Pavlovian dogs, simply throwing out some phrase after which the citizen, reflexively, runs to vote more power to the politicians.
The only way to presume that citizens’ ignorance of government is irrelevant to democracy is for the government to be so inherently benevolent that people do not even need to know what it is doing. That is, people can ignore the details of government policies — since they are essentially making a choice between two competing political caregivers — in the same way that an infirm person might choose between two nurses competing for hire, with no understanding of the drugs the nurses plan to inject him with. [That is particularly dangerous if the successful nurse will have power over you and access to your money! Therefore the need for limited government as promoted by libertarians.]" - James Bovard
Policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation and author of 'Lost Rights' (1994). Quoted from an article he wrote published on The Future of Freedom Foundation website [www.fff.org].
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"A democratic government that respects no limits on its own power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect." - James Bovard
'Attention Deficit Democracy', 2006.
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"It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had." - James Bovard
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"Democracy [to be just and moral, not merely self-interested mob rule] must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." - James Bovard
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"How many kings have abdicated their thrones after becoming convinced that monarchy did not truly serve the downtrodden masses? Will politicians cede power after social scientists document how their favorite programs do more harm than good?" - James Bovard
'The Absurdity of 'Reform' in DC', February 13, 2015.
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| [Quote No.71347] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politics; Morality and ethics:] Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. [Might is not right, which is why all democracies require a Bill of Rights that even a majority cannot vote to deny the constitutionally-agreed rights to any minority - even a minority of one - within that society.]" - James Bovard
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