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Is Democracy Fact or Fiction?
America’s “One Man, One Vote” ideal is a joke

“An active, well informed citizenry is the cornerstone of democracy.
All the flag waving and heart-rending speeches in the world will not translate into democracy without our direct and informed participation. This course of action requires that we give up our boredom and replace it with activism. It also requires that we take responsibility for seeing that government adheres to the will of the people—not the shareholders of the corporation. We must stop selling ourselves short as citizens. We can and must take power out of the hands of the special interest groups. Understand that the champions of the status quo will not give us power—we must take it back from them. We must restore power to its rightful place—in the hands of ‘we the people’.

“We must demonstrate sufficient self respect, as well as respect for justice, to know that what we think matters. We should ask ourselves why wealthy corporate donors have a dictatorial voice in government, while ordinary citizens have no voice at all. Who represents us in Washington? If our elected representatives do not, then why allow them to serve the enemies of a free and open society? Is this not government without representation? Why do we tolerate this intolerable state of affairs? Our silence—our inaction—in the face of evil not only allows these oppressive events to continue, it fuels them.”

Charles Sullivan

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