Democracy

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
– James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States,
and there has always been. The strain of
anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread
winding its way through our political and cultural
life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy
means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
– Isaac Asimov