[lbo-talk] This time it's a September Surprise on Romney

[Michael Smith]

On 10/06/2012 11:25 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
> You are correct that elections are not about choice.  They are about
> 'voting' that is voicing affirmation.  No, not the candidates, but the
> process and the community defined by it.  They are are like religious
> rituals,

Sorta. But the religious rituals are much to be preferred. They are, 
after all, frankly rituals; whereas elections falsely purport to have an 
instrumental character, to enable the voter to make things happen in the 
world.

-- Michael J. Smith
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