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The fallacy of democracy

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 23, 2020Categories democracyTags E. B. White

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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