The Superfluous Man: Lèse majesté

"Like the flag, for many people the vote seems less a political matter than a religious one. It really is remarkable how voting has become the central American right, the right that constitutes and defines “freedom.” Nothing else -- the right to property, to free speech, to bear arms, to your own labor, to control your own body -- has such a sacred character."

The Superfluous Man: Lèse majesté