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Is Democracy in a Death Spiral?

• LewRockwell.com by Patrick J. Buchanan

The only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better. …

"People say, 'If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better.' I say Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are, just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish."

This dismissal of democracy, cited by historian H. W. Brands in "The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War," is attributed to that great populist Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

Few would air such views today, as democracy has been divinized.

Indeed, for allegedly hacking the Clinton campaign and attacking "our democracy," Vladimir Putin has been condemned to the ninth circle of hell. Dick Cheney and John McCain have equated Moscow's mucking around in our sacred democratic rituals to an "act of war."


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