Thursday, May 31, 2012

Sounds like modern America as well...

The trouble with modern England is not how many or how few people vote. It is that, however many people vote, a small ring of administrators do what they please

-August 30, 1909, Daily News
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4 comments:

  1. coffeepotcurveMay 31, 2012 at 10:44 PM

    scary accurate

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  2. MikeJune 1, 2012 at 7:39 AM

    Unfortunately. :-(

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  3. Richard ErnstDecember 20, 2020 at 12:38 AM

    the next part of that quote is even more applicable...

    "...Before people can vote against this ring, people must know about it; and the ring has decided people shall not know."

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  4. MikeDecember 20, 2020 at 6:40 AM

    Very true...

    Another relevant quote from the same letter:

    "Liberty is a spirit, without which vote are useless..."

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