John Dewey: “The only difference made by an election is as to who get the jobs, draw the salaries and shake down the plum tree.”

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.

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