Quotulatiousness

August 6, 2018

QotD: Voting

Filed under: Politics, Quotations, USA — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 01:00

Most people vote in elections for the candidate they dislike the least, and perhaps this is as it should be: positive enthusiasm for candidates and politicians in general is likely to give them an inflated idea of their own importance and thereby promote the politicization of life.

Theodore Dalrymple, “Self-Anointed v. Resentful: A view from across the Atlantic”, City Journal, 2016-11-08.

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