John Dewey: “Success in military achievement is an irrelevant factor which has controlled the selection of men to rule.”

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

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.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?