Life, As The Signs In The Liquor

President Trump Watches A Lot Of Television. I Mean, Really A Lot. His Favourite Channel Is Fox. Now Just Imagine Somebody Wants Put A Message In Front Of The President. You Can Hire A Lobbyist Or You Can Buy A Minute On Fox Or You Can Even Pay Somebody At A Think Tank To Articulate Your Message And Then Pay A Booker At That Think Tank To Get That Person On Fox And Put The Thought Directly In The President's Ear.

I Want People To Understand That, Look, We're In A Period Of Democratic Deficit, Democratic Recession. There Are Fewer Democracies In The World Today Than In 2005, And In Many Of The Countries That Are Still Technically Democracies, We're Seeing A Reduction In The Rule Of Law. And That's Especially True In Central Europe, But It's Also True Of Places Like South Africa, The Philippines.

Venezuela Has Gone From Being A Democratic Country 15 Years Ago To Being Totally Not A Democracy Today. Usually That De-democratization Doesn't Take The Form Of A Heavy Handed Police State.

So Little Of What Makes A Democracy Work Is Written Down. So Much Of It Is Just The Things You Don't Do. There Are A Lot Of Things That A Prime Minister Or A President Can Do And They Don't Do Them Because It Never Occurs To Them To Do Them.

People Who Watch A Lot Of Fox Come Away Knowing A Lot Less About Important World Events.