… is from page 283 of Robert Higgs’s 2004 volume, Against Leviathan; specifically, it’s from Bob’s essay “Escaping Leviathan?”:
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.
