"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
Democracy as Spectacle: The Messianic Compulsions of our Republic
Perhaps the bait and switch schizophrenia of American Exceptionalism has finally run its course. After all, we have for so long heard the phrase “American Democracy” that we have come to believe our stage-managed direct democracy exercise in voting is much more than a kind of bone thrown to a hungry dog...
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If you still have friends who are frustrated with what is wrong with America and what should be done about it, they may want to read this essay. Talk about 'telling it like it is', I was impressed.