"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Are We Smart Enough for Democracy?
Submitted by KenK on Fri, 2015-02-06 01:00
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''Today, this old problem of citizen ignorance and its political role has been worsened by the expansion of the scale and scope of the federal government and its agencies over the last 75 years. Indeed, the complexity of the policies that federal agencies enforce and manage has made [Woodrow] Wilson’s ideas about the necessity for government by technocratic elites a self-fulfilling prophecy."
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