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“There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard’s vote.” David Foster Wallace True for every election everywhere.

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" However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely . . . to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government . . . " G. Washington, 9-17, 1796

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Right as rain - every word worth reading: www.reddit.com/r/AntiTrumpA...

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By James Riley Swan:

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In September & October 1993, a constitutional crisis arose in the Russian Federation: a conflict between then-Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, and Russia's parliament. Yeltsin performed a self-coup, dissolving parliament and instituting a presidential rule by decree system. Sound a bit familiar?

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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill

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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (12 Feb 1809-1865)

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Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me. Rev. Martin Niemoller, May 1952

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Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.

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Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Trade Unionist.

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An oldie - but most unfortunately - still a goodie: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Socialist.

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"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience." Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal (4 Feb 1902-2003) No less true now.

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"Without a ruler to do it against, you can't make crooked straight." - Seneca

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman 22 Jan 1561-1626

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