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“Where where where
are we headed?
as individuals?
as a nation?
a world?

Where where where are we headed?
Which path will we take?
Who will go with us
and what will we carry?

And will we survive the treacherous journey?
Will we know when the votes have been cast?
Will we know when the totals are tallied?

...My head and my heart
churn to know.”
― Shellen Lubin

“A year [after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965], the white backlash had become an emotional electoral issue in California, Maryland and elsewhere. In several Southern states men long regarded as political clowns had become governors or only narrowly missed election, their magic achieved with a “witches’â€� brew of bigotry, prejudice, half-truths and whole lies.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“Of course, ordinary White people benefit from racist policies, though not nearly as much as racist power and not nearly as much as they could from an equitable society, one where the average White voter could have as much power as superrich White men to decide elections and shape policy.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“I have heard that we are stupid for voting against our self interest,
and I know how hard it is to vote in my state.
I have heard that we are willfully uneducated,
and I have seen our artificially low property taxes
create our underfunded school system.
I have heard criticism from the experts,
but I have seen nothing but classism disguised
as neoliberal conjecture.
You cannot understand where I come from
if you are not also from there. I mean
that words fail
and nuance exists
and the enemy is never who we are taught to hate.”
― Belle Townsend, Push and Pull

“In America, if the wrong party gets in you just go to the store, buy a gun and a ton of ammo! Some elections are known to cause a spike in gun sales.”
― Steven Magee

“Elections are the bedrock of democracy; however, it is a costly endeavour.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“These groups and movements were also inspired by a conviction that democracy is worthless, that elections cannot bring real change, and that only the most extreme and desperate actions can stop the decline of a certain vision of America.

By 2016, some of the arguments of the old Marxist left--their hatred of ordinary, bourgeois politics and their longing for revolutionary change--met and mingled with the Christian right's despair about the future of American democracy. Together, they produced the restorative nostalgic campaign rhetoric of Donald Trump.”
― Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

“When someone pays you to vote for them. They are actually buying you out of power. Once they win the elections. You won't have power to do or to say anything, because you would have traded your voice, rights and power , by that time they gave you money. They can do and say as they please . You can't object. They bought that power and bought it from you. So they own you.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Politicians are always fighting for power and not fighting for the poor, because they want to change their own lives, not other people lives.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Corruption is a root of all the problems a country faces.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Imagine how the last presidential campaign would have turned out if instead of the marketing circus that we were treated to, we were just given a weekly round table discussion between Bush, Gore, and Nader for a couple months running up to the election. No staged rallies, no TV images with flags flowing in the sunset, no pollsters. No marketing. Bush would have been luck to get two percent.

(from an interview in Attitude, 2002)”
― Matt Wuerker

“COVID-19: just dangerous enough to block abortion but not dangerous enough to hold elections by mail.

(4/7/2020 on Twitter)”
― Chase Strangio

“I hope people realize that the same Republicans who are refusing to acknowledge the results of our elections also champion disastrous foreign policy claiming they're "bringing democracy" to other nations.

(11/10/2020)”
― Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“After the 2016 election, a great deal of journalism and social science was devoted to finding out whether Trump’s voters were mainly motivated by economic anxiety or racial resentment. There was evidence for both answers.

Progressives, shocked by the readiness of half the country to support this hateful man, seized on racism as the single cause and set out to disprove every alternative. But this answer was far too satisfying. Racism is such an irreducible evil that it gave progressives commanding moral heights and relieved them of the burden to understand the grievances of their compatriots down in the lowlands, let alone do something about them. It put Trump voters beyond the pale.”
― George Packer

“Some people vote for the party, some for the candidate, while there are some that vote for their belief or believing in the ideology. They all believe these are different choices, and that they have chosen wisely.”
― Ashutosh Joshi

“It is so sad to watch criminals fighting each other to run our country in the name of Politics. These people know each other shenanigans. They know who committed which crime , when and where. They are keeping the Information as their secret and bait. Waiting for the day, they are being caught and charged. So, they can play check mate card. To them this Is all a game. To us It Is our lives. Citizens are suffering and dying , because they are putting their hope and trust on this people. Thinking they are representing them and are trying to do good things for them. When one of this politicians is exposed. They are doing everything In their power to distract us. The day we realize we are on our own. Is the day we will take voting seriously.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The aging chose the years of their youth, yet the young, who were not even born then, would have to live in those years. There was a certain injustice in that - choosing the time the next generation would live in. As happens in all elections, actually.”
― Gospodinov Georgi

“That view required a considerable amount of optimism, given that most white Kentuckians at the time viewed any postwar election won by a Republican as stolen.”
― W Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

“Look around during elections and you will realize that it is almost, if already isn’t, like a beauty contest.”
― DON SANTO

“People online change, pretend, are fake, and not serious. They take things easy, for granted and they are different online than physical. People are mean and vile online, especially when they know they are anonymous. I know we are moving with time and technology. But, do you really think online voting will work? Do you think people will vote for the right party? Do you think people will take it seriously and do you think they will make the right decision? Do you think the party that wins? Will be the right party that deserves to win. If the IEC says, people must vote online? Until we all have integrity. We are not ready for online voting.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Control through the illusion of choice.”
― Steven Magee

“The way it’s goingâ€�
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A foul-mouthed Pee-wee Herman runs for president. People finally realize what a racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, and homophobic bigot he is. He’s clearly not a politician. Rather, he’s someone who speaks his mind, and that makes him relatable.

Herman runs against a faceless, forgettable career backbencher who’s been wrong on every issue for half a century, has become a multimillionaire without a legal avenue to attaining his fortune, and who you’re told you have to vote for because he’s experienced.
Last year, we were told that the politician had a lobotomy, but the alternative is even worse.

The voters will be hit with a tsunami of stomach-turning, deceptive ads and told that they have to vote for one of the two, or else they’ll be throwing away their democracy.

In four years, they’ll run Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s coat for president. No one will notice. His coat will have more integrity than all of the idiots in recent years they’ve presented to us so we can confirm them.”
― Gary J. Floyd, Barbarians in the Halls of Power

“Today we are suffering because those who know better choose not to entertain politics and those who don’t know. The ones without integrity choose to sing the tune and praises of the one who gives them money, who feeds them or who promised to give them something. They see corruption as connections.
Oppositions as spies, agencies, puppet masters, proxies, sellouts, stogies or clever blacks.
Accountability to them means they are being targeted and hated. They choose to see themselves and those they support as victims when they must answer for their crimes or wrongdoings.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Politicians are granted a certain degree of partisan leniency by their electorate, meaning their constituents will accept legislation they do not entirely agree with if, and only if, they are convinced withdrawing support would strengthen the opposition.”
― Michael Gurnow

“In politics, 99.99% of the time. those with louder voices are the ones who are receiving invoices. It is not about ethics, morals or integrity. It is about the paycheck. There is no checkmate but it is a check payment.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“People are very political and vocal on social media. They are politics analysts until it is time to vote. Then they are silent, mute, nowhere and not participating. All they do is talk but not act.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Campaigning before three months of an election is just like studying for an exam one hour before: you never know the outcome.”
― Vikrant Adams

“At the bottom of all tribute paid to democracy is the little man and woman, walking into a little booth, with a little pencil making a little cross on paper- no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.”
― Winston Churchill

“An average voter now days always know how much to vote for.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Step aside! Better days are coming.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land