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History of Ideas: Thoreau
Past Present Future
The Importance of Refusal in Democracy
"The great temptation of democratic politics is to think that because other people have the power that is we elect them and then they decide all we can do is change the people who decide for us," he says. "We keep chopping and changing in the hope that we'll find the people whose thoughts align with ours We can't really do anything else", writes Julian Zelizer. 'If you do that you will always be subject to the majority machine'
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