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  1. Jon Stewart _ America (The Book): A

    It is perhaps a sign of the strength of our republic that so few people feel the need to participate. That must be the reason.
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  2. Jon Stewart _ America (The Book): A

    As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every four years; a Congress with a 99% incumbency rate; a Supreme Court comprised of nine politically appointed judges whose only oversight is the icy scythe of Death -- all these reveal a system fully capable of maintaining itself. But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign countries still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them."
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  3. Noam Chomsky _ Media Control: The Spectacular

    They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.
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  4. Sinclair Lewis _ It Can't Happen Here

    Women, she pointed out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in 1919 she could have saved them all this trouble. No. Certainly not. No votes.
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  5. Sinclair Lewis _ Kingsblood Royal

    Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war."
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  6. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    It's like… that big red hand of McMurphy's is reaching into the fog and dropping down and dragging the men up by their hands, dragging them blinking into the open. First one, then another, then the next. Right on down the line of Acutes, dragging them out of the fog till there they stand, all twenty of them, raising not just for watching TV, but against the Big Nurse, against her trying to send McMurphy to Disturbed, against the way she's talked and acted and beat them down for years."
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  7. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ These Happy Golden Years

    I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. {Mrs. McKee to Laura, regarding homesteading laws}
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  8. Hunter S. Thompson _ Fear and Loathing on the

    Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?
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  9. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito", I'd tell people.
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