“Democracy is the art of cheerfully pulling the wool over the eyes of the people, and doing so in their name.”

—  Karlheinz Deschner

Demokratie ist die Kunst, dem Volk im Namen des Volkes feierlich das Fell über die Ohren zu ziehn.
Bissige Aphorismen, S. 64

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