The Novel that Unravels Democracy
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The Disenfranchisement Movement
I think logically, and I agree with you on this, that the whole point about a democracy is that you shouldn't put restrictions on who votes. But no group among the disenfranchised once they've got the vote ever wants to give it back. It's like the soundtracks as it were To all of our lives. And I'm interested in the way those big global issues penetrate thought of the private life rather than being interested so much in what views my central character, Roland, takes. Although he does leave the Labour Party because when he wants to talk about human rights abuses in the Soviet Empire,. Central Europe, Eastern Europe, he gets either a lot of what aboutism or being told
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