Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship … - Fred Reed

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A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

Fred Reed

Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television.

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When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

Almighty, Religion, See, Transcript, Want

Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

America, Bribes, Hill, Law, Legislation, Temples

Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.

Character, Class, Classes, Games, Low, Moral

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

Democracy, Imagine, Proper, Retain, Self

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

Children, Come, Hobbies, Peace, War