I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.
Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.
We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.
There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.
I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.
For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.
I believe that democracy is about values before it is about voting. These values must be nurtured within society and integrated into the electoral process itself.