Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Democracy
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Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
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The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place.
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The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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