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    The People Have Spoken (and They Are Wrong): The Case Against Democracy
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    The People Have Spoken (and They Are Wrong): The Case Against Democracy

    By David Harsanyi

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    Democracy may be one of the most admired ideas ever concocted, but what if it’s also one of the most harebrained? After many years of writing about democracy for a living, David Harsanyi has concluded that it’s the most overrated, overused, and misunderstood idea in political life. The less we have of it the better.

    Democracy” is not synonymous with freedom.” It is not the opposite of tyranny. In fact, the Founding Fathers knew that democracy can lead to tyranny. That’s why they built so many safeguards against it into the Constitution.

    Democracy, Harsanyi argues, has made our government irrational, irresponsible, and invasive. It has left the American people with only two optionsdomination by the majority or a government that can’t possibly work.

    The modern age has imbued democracy with the mystique of infallibility. But Harsanyi reminds us that the vast majority of political philosophers, including the founders, have thought that responsible, limited government based on direct majority rule over a large, let alone continental scale was a practical impossibility.

    In The People Have Spoken, you’ll learn:
    • Why the Framers of our Constitution were intent on establishing a republic, not a democracy”

    • How democracy undermines self-government

    • How shockingly out of touch with reality most voters really are

    • Why democracy is an economic wrecking balland an invitation to a politics of envy and corruption

    • How the great political philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Burke and Tocqueville predicted with uncanny accuracy that democracy could lead to tyranny

    Harsanyi warns that if we don’t recover the Founders’ republican vision, democracy” might very well spell the end of American liberty and prosperity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRegnery Publishing
    Release dateMar 10, 2014
    ISBN9781621572275
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    The People Have Spoken (and They Are Wrong): The Case Against Democracy
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    David Harsanyi

    David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of four books. A contributor to the New York Post, his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, USA Today, National Review, and numerous other publications, and he has been featured on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, and dozens of radio talk shows across the country. He lives in Washington, DC.

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