January 17, 2012

Voting for tapioca.

The elections are supposed to indicate the presence of democracy, but they do not. Elections do not determine policy but only the division of spoils. An election in which candidates take no positions becomes a high-school popularity contest. The way to have elections without having a democracy is to let the people vote, but not on anything.
"More candidates." By Fred Reed, Fred on Everything, 1/17/12.

No comments: