John Dewey: “Since things do not attain such fulfillment but are in actuality distracted and interfered with, democracy in this sense…”

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.