Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.
Hazen PingreeTag: democracy apathy voters voting
If there is no way to compel those who find a majority decision distasteful to go along with it, then the last thing one would want to do is to hold a vote: a public contest which someone will be seen to lose. Voting would be the most likely means to guarantee humiliations, resentments, hatreds, in the end, the destruction of communities. What is seen as an elaborate and difficult process of finding consensus is, in fact, a long process of making sure no one walks away feeling that their views have been totally ignored.
David GraeberTag: democracy voting consensus
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 GraeberTag: power elections military voting ancient-greece
People must not vote thinking the evil will lose, but for valuing their existence
M.F. MoonzajerTag: voting voting-rights
That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything.
Lou Henry HooverTag: women elections vote voting suffrage women-s-rights women-s-suffrage
Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.
William Earl MaxwellTag: corruption government voting suffrage
Damn right I voted for him. But if I’d known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote—I’d have cast a brick.
John BrunnerAs 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.
Jon StewartTag: humor politics democracy voting congress supreme-court
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 StewartIf you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth; if you don’t care for the truth, watch how you vote.
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