Democracy pages

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men”. Plato

“Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.” Henry David Thoreau

“The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice—you don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media, so they control just about all the information you get. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying—lobbying, to get what they want.” George Carlin

“Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.” (Edward Abbey) But Abbey didn’t understand a lot of things

George Woodcock: “even were democracy possible, the anarchist would not support it…Anarchists do not advocate political freedom. What they advocate is freedom from politics…”

• Democratic failures
• Democracy Is Awful and We Need It for a Ton of Stuff
• Self governance
• Myth of rule of law
• A rigged system
• The American Crisis
• Tweak the Vote
• The US Needs to Face  Up to its Long History of Election Meddling

June C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium: Anarchy and Democracy

Overthrow: 100 Years of U.S. Meddling & Regime Change, from Iran to Nicaragua to Hawaii to Cuba