Democratic Elections Quotes

“Awake, Arise and Vote.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Feed them a few lies encapsulated in patriotism and they will not mind electing even a pompous and megalomaniacal bully as their representative.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“We must treat the practice of politics the same way we treat the practice of medicine. Unskilled politicians have no more place in politics than unskilled doctors have in medicine. And to make sure that only skilled individuals are permitted by law to run for office, we must include training and licensing into our current democratic paradigm. Otherwise democracy will remain a rule of the halfwits, by the halfwits, for the halfwits till kingdom come.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“Better a fool chosen by the people than a sage thrust upon them by tradition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“The best guide I know of is political economist Thomas Ferguson’s “investment theory of politics,” mentioned above, the thesis that to a good first approximation, we can understand elections to be occasions in which groups of investors coalesce to control the state, a very good predictor of policy over a long period, as he shows. For 2008, we would therefore anticipate that the interests of the financial industries, the major funders (who preferred Obama to McCain), would be “most peculiarly attended to” by government policy, in accord with Adam Smith’s maxim. And so we find.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hopes and Prospects