Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.
Dennis E. AdonisMots clés politics tricks elections vote government false promises politician distrust fooled brainwash duped
In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see how this worked at its starkest in Xenophon’s Anabasis, which tells the story of an army of Greek mercenaries who suddenly find themselves leaderless and lost in the middle of Persia. They elect new officers, and then hold a collective vote to decide what to do next. In a case like this, even if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest.
David GraeberMots clés power elections military voting ancient-greece
Maybe what stopped people from voting wasn't a lack of information about the candidates or a feeling that the outcomes of races didn't matter or a sense that a trip to the polls was inconvenient. What if voting wasn't only a political act, but a social one that took place in a liminal space between the public and private that had never been well-defined to citizens? What if toying with those expectations was key to turning a person into a voter? What if elections were simply less about shaping people's opinions than changing their behaviors?
Sasha IssenbergElection is the only course of action that identifies liars before they are in power.
M.F. MoonzajerYou have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
Guy de MaupassantMots clés intelligence democracy elections government fools population mediocrity masses
That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything.
Lou Henry HooverMots clés women elections vote voting suffrage women-s-rights women-s-suffrage
[Stump speeches] are to oratory what a stump is to a tree.
Jon StewartMots clés humor politics elections
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.
Jon StewartMots clés humor elections voting
The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.
Christopher HitchensMots clés politics elections politics-of-the-united-states election-promises
In the United States […] the two main business-dominated parties, with the support of the corporate community, have refused to reform laws that make it virtually impossible to create new political parties (that might appeal to non-business interests) and let them be effective. Although there is marked and frequently observed dissatisfaction with the Republicans and Democrats, electoral politics is one area where notions of competitions and free choice have little meaning. In some respects the caliber of debate and choice in neoliberal elections tends to be closer to that of the one-party communist state than that of a genuine democracy.
Robert W. McChesneyMots clés democracy capitalism elections corporatism neoliberalism democracy-gone-wrong republican-party democratic-party
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