Scholars have been slow to appreciate that elections are and always have been for the most part a sham – a mere ceremony intended to make people believe they have some control over their fate even as they are mercilessly bullied, bamboozled, and fleeced by their rulers.
This is from Robert Higgs’s 2004 volume, Against Leviathan; particularly from the “Escaping Leviathan?” as quoted by Professor Don Boudreaux at Café Hayek
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