{"id":2157,"date":"2010-10-26T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2010-10-27T19:19:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T00:19:24","slug":"de-sacralizing-democracy-refuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/26\/de-sacralizing-democracy-refuted\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;De-Sacralizing Democracy&#8221; Refuted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Campaign for Liberty<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/article.php?view=1168&#038;discuss=1#discuss\"><strong>reposted<\/strong> <\/a>my FFF article on &#8220;De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>first comment<\/strong>, from last4ever from Salisbury, MD, was tell-tale: [quotes from my article in italics; his rebuttal is non-italicized]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The combination of ignorant voters and conniving politicians is far more likely to ruin than to rescue this nation.&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n(Duh!, your books arent exaclty teaching people principals of economics though, in fact you are simply cashing in on the ignorance, being a conviencing author and all)<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the emergence of a &#8220;critical, skeptical public opinion&#8221; now seems as likely as 25 cents-a-gallon gasoline.&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n(On a side note, my realitive price of gas as a percentage of my wage has gone down over something like 300%)<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Americans must begin to think again as free citizens,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\nI always considered the term &#8220;free citizen&#8221; an oxymoron, that is unless you don&#8217;t believe in social contract theory.  I think you mean people need to start thinking as free humans and deprive themselves of any and all public goods. <\/ul>\n<p>*****************************************************************************************************************************************************<br \/>\nJPB: My hunch is that the Revolution has not yet arrived. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Campaign for Liberty reposted my FFF article on &#8220;De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty.&#8221; The first comment, from last4ever from Salisbury, MD, was tell-tale: [quotes from my article in italics; his rebuttal is non-italicized] &#8220;The combination of ignorant voters and conniving politicians is far more likely to ruin than to rescue this nation.&#8221; (Duh!, your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;De-Sacralizing Democracy&quot; 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