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"Listen, for people who haven't heard the facts about what's been going on, on the election front, to suddenly encounter all the evidence of what's really been happening at every level can be staggering. Okay? So people can feel a little bit despairing about it. That's the last thing in the world I want. Indeed, you know, depression is only anger turned inward, as Freud told us. The fact is that we're talking here about a fundamental right, no, about the fundamental right. This is the right on which all our other rights depend, as Tom Paine said. Nothing is more important than this right. This is the right for which millions of our forebears have shed their blood, have died. This is what keeps us free. Only this. If we lose the right to pick our representatives and to get rid of the government when we don't like it anymore, if we don't have that right, if we don't have that power, we're as good as slaves." -- Mark Crispin Miller, 2008-10-17, on the PBS television program, Bill Moyers Journal [bold emphasis added by me; underline emphasis represents vocal emphasis in original (but not indicated in the web transcript)]

( Mark Crispin Miller, on the state of the US election process and the importance thereof )

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