Book Excerpt for the Day

    “Professor, that’ll never fly in America.”

    Schaftschticker said, “On the contrary.  It’s already flown.  Only 20 to 30 percent of the eligible voters exercise their rights regularly – and of those only a fraction understand why they are even casting a ballot.  A mere 10 percent of the population understands the Bill of Rights and most think the Supreme Court is a female singing group.  Our tests show that if we put joke candidates on the ballot, nine times out of ten they’re elected.”

    (from Z is for Xenophobe,  by Terry Faust)

    6½*/10.  The full review is here.

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