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...their votes and not their issues. Political participation is an individual act and allows for what I would term political creativity. When people participate regularly they work for what they want and who they want and make a statement that, in many respects, is more significant that pulling the lever...
...most prominently featured quotes painted on the bus, attributed to Ice Cube, illustrates my worst fears: "You might as well pull the lever, what 'Chu afraid of?" He makes voting sound like a painless way to fill up a free afternoon...
...great American metaphysician Chuck Jones discerned some years ago that the universe operates in sequences of violent Newtonian reciprocities. Jones dramatized his ideas in the famous Wile E. Coyote-Road Runner Dynamic: Coyote sets in motion giant boulder A, which whistlingly descends into a canyon to strike seesaw lever B, catapulting giant boulder C into orbit...and so on. Jones' work is a bridge that carries Isaac Newton across into Chaos Theory...
...some students questioned the involvement of the student body in budget conflicts. Sam Seidel, a student School Committee member, said that many of his peers were misinformed. He condemned faculty for criticizing the superintendent in front of students, and for trying to use the student body as a lever against budget cuts...
...their supremacy over blacks politically. They led campaigns to further disenfranchise black communities that had virtually no right to vote anyway, and they turned away from their abolitionist roots during the Jacksonian era to support the pro-slavery Democratic party. Irish had learned to treat their whiteness as a lever and blackness as a fulcrum, to pry themselves upwards into social and political prominence...