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

—  James Bovard

From Attention Deficit Democracy (Palgrave, 2006) http://www.jimbovard.com/Epigrams%20Attention%20Deficit%20Democracy.htm

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