[lbo-talk] responding to The Nation

[Steve Bruns]

My freshman political science text (The Irony of Democracy by Thomas  
R. Dye and L. Harmon Zeigler) was more or less a book length  
exposition of the same theme and that was in 1970.

On 18-Oct-12, at 12:49 PM, John Gulick wrote:


>
> Woj: "I understand that
> presidential politics is the last place to change things.  It is a
> ritual of anointment not an exercise in political change.  So since
> very little was done by myself and others close to my political
> persuasion to change the way the political machine works before the
> elections, the only thing I can do is to take a short walk to a local
> school on that November day and pull the lever for the political party
> that I find less objectionable."
>
> Not exactly inspiring boilerplate for the high school civics  
> textbook...
>
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