"Democratic societies tend to become more concerned with what people believe than with what is true, to become more concerned with credibility than truth."
--Daniel Boorstin, "Democracy and Its Discontents," 1971

Can you say Global Warming?

Sounds like John McCain, Charlie Crist and the great global warming hoax! Exactly asdf! G-d save this great republic from hoaxsters and Populists.

Morgan

They definitely have something to do with each other. Of course the issue is "what is true" has to with what people believe to be true. Sometimes the counter is the truth, and sometimes it is only believed to be the truth the opposition.

It also seems a necessary flaw of democracy, one that limits itself when the people no longer believe in actual democracy. Then, we get a willing provider of "Truth" like the judicial-progressives.