All Posts Tagged With: "political illegitimacy"
“Deliberative Democracy” Dementia
A specter is haunting America ‘s politicians and professors—the spect(er of illegitimacy. The political-intellectual elite fear that millions of Americans will conclude that the current democracy is a fraud—that they are being given bogus choices at the ballot box—and that the phrase “will of the people” now means as little as “the check is in [...]
1May2007 | James Bovard | 4 comments | Continued-
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