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History of Ideas: Thoreau
Past Present Future
The Vice of Democracy
The vice of democratic politics is always leaving it up to someone else. In representative democracies our job as citizens is to allow other people to decide for us, he says. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it because it's abdicating responsibility according to thorough. If you want to stop it you have to stop it with active complaining rather than just whinging about what hasn't gone wrong.
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