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"Bovard's Attention Deficit Democracy is published"
...Here's a little sampling of epigrams from ADD. (Hm. I think our friend Jim may one day rival H.L. Mencken in the liberty-quote books.)

* Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

* Instead of revealing the "will of the people," election results are often only a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions.

* Attention Deficit Democracy lulls citizens into thinking that they have nothing to fear from the rising number of sticks and shackles that politicians and bureaucrats can use on them.

* The biggest election frauds usually occur before the voting booths open.

* A democratic government that respects no limits on its own power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

* Leviathan is premised on government's need to control the people. Democracy rests on people's right to control the government. The conflict between these two principles generates much of the deceit that permeates contemporary politics....