{"id":25290,"date":"2014-04-24T08:51:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25290"},"modified":"2014-04-24T08:52:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:52:14","slug":"reason-tv-is-democracy-overrated-qa-with-columnist-david-harsanyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/24\/reason-tv-is-democracy-overrated-qa-with-columnist-david-harsanyi\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Reason.tv<\/em> &#8211; Is Democracy Overrated? Q&#038;A with Columnist David Harsanyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LzKIh0uPCqE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 22 Apr 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the Founders weren&#8217;t wary enough of democracy,&#8221; says David Harsanyi, senior editor at <em>The Federalist<\/em> and a nationally syndicated columnist. &#8220;I think there are bigger problems with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harsanyi sat down with <em>Reason TV<\/em>&#8216;s Nick Gillespie to discuss his new book, <em>The People Have Spoken and They Are Wrong: The Case Against Democracy<\/em>, why we put too much weight on voting, and why praising democracy is just celebrating mob rule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democracy&#8217;s just a process that reflects the morals and ethics of the people who vote,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t guarantee you freedom \u2014 just check out the Gaza Strip or Egypt or anywhere else.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 22 Apr 2014 &#8220;I think the Founders weren&#8217;t wary enough of democracy,&#8221; says David Harsanyi, senior editor at The Federalist and a nationally syndicated columnist. &#8220;I think there are bigger problems with it.&#8221; Harsanyi sat down with Reason TV&#8216;s Nick Gillespie to discuss his new book, The People Have Spoken and They Are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,53,13],"tags":[715,766],"class_list":["post-25290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-constitution","tag-democracy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6zU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25291,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290\/revisions\/25291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}