The Long Con: Democracy & The Illusion Of Consent
-Eric Peters
RON PAUL NEWS
Democracy is an incredibly successful long con. It works because of the illusion of consent. People actually believe they are “represented.”(continue)(Hans-Hermann Hoppe)
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And so, they accept impositions that would otherwise be intolerable, if imposed on them by a king or a fuhrer or generalissimo.
But when the “people” have decided… .
Except of course, they’ve done no such thing. It is all an illusion, a rhetorical sleight-of-hand that deftly hides the reality that it is not the “people” who decide anything but rather a small handful of individuals who wield vast – almost unlimited – power by claiming to act on their behalf.
Which is a fine-sounding literary device but as a political actuality it is an atrocity.
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