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March 16, 2025

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

Don Aitken (1937– ), Australian political scientist, quoted in 1969, in The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed. (London: 1986), p.4

How would you describe the average voter in the privacy of your own mind?

The daily grind of politics is of no interest to the average citizen, whose attention is too often captured by soap operas, reality TV, and the like.


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