Our democracy relies on participation, and we've never done better by excluding folks.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage the highest levels of voter turnout and participation.
But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
We're not a democracy.
We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.