"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Why Your Vote Hasn’t Mattered Since 1913
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Mon, 2018-10-08 01:00
"You could say it was the beginning of a new United States of America… which hardly resembled the old structure. It was the beginning of taxation without representation… The complete reversal of everything Americans fought for and achieved during the American Revolution. It began the era of the American Empire. A centralized government, large enough to do whatever it wanted without restraint. Too large for the people to control through representative democracy."
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