Attention Deficit Democracy
“It would be a mistake to view Bush as an aberration in modern political history. There are far more parallels between Bush and Clinton than either Democrats or Rebublicans would like to admit. And most of Clinton’s abuses followed precedents set by Bush Sr., Nixon, Johnson, and earlier presidents. Bush is more a symptom of the decay of American democracy than a first causes.”
“A democractic government that respects no limits on its own power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect. The more people who believe democracy is failsafe, the more likely it will fail. Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance, and arrogance that pave the way to pollitical collapse.”
I started this book tonight, and it’s already so good, but kind of scary. He starts out by stating the point of the book in an introduction. He really slams Bush a ton in the beginning, and then he starts to show parallels between Bush and Clinton, and as you can see nearly all modern presidents. He’s talked about how both Bush and Clinton have bombed places without the permission of Congress in the name of freedom and democracy.
He also talked about how long it has been since we’ve had a president who ran on a platform based on the Constitution. This book is very informative and I recommend it to every one who does not realize the importance of our Republic. We must realize its deterioration in order to stop it. It’s strange that all of the mainstream media ignores the only ‘08 candidate that advocates the Constitution. Oh, the irony of the United States.
Attention Deficit Democracy by James Bovard.
