GumboFilé: Ballot Box Folklore: Reflections on the myth of the majority

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Monday, December 25, 2006

Ballot Box Folklore: Reflections on the myth of the majority

That the ballot box contains a bona fide expression of the will of the people is a myth as fantastic as any attributed to the ancients in a more innocent age. It is a myth comparable to the genie in the bottle offering the liberator three fantastic wishes. But this myth is a key feature of an outrageous hoax perpetrated on a deluded people by clever opportunists ambitious for power over them.

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Monday, December 25, 2006

Ballot Box Folklore: Reflections on the myth of the majority

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