John Dewey: “Perhaps the apathy of the electorate is due to the irrelevant artificiality of the issues with which it is attempted to…”

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.