"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
Friday, September 19, 2008
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