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Zeno's Conscience

by Italo Svevo

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Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community

by Steven Gregory

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“Reek took not more than an hour to relate what would've taken the most intelligent man five or six hours--that is, five minutes of speech and the rest of the five hours to recover from the nausea caused by having to utter such shameless rot...”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

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“Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting

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