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...participation in community discussions and communicating with local, state and federal officials, voting is at the heart of America's democratic system. Parents who take their children to polling precincts when they are young help them understand that they have a voice in the democratic process. Voting empowers the powerless, equalizes the powerful and provides a voice to those who feel excluded from the process of government...
...only does the middle-aged man have to watch in horror as his once-peaceful town is destroyed, but he himself is imprisoned Gulliver-style by the Lilliputian models. The town’s militia are powerless to save him, and he, like the inhabitants of the town, falls victim to the depravity of the Tokyo Police Club...
...That last feeling can be the real problem. Where there's marginalization, there's a profound sense of powerlessness, and powerless people tend to hit back. More worryingly, it doesn't take grave abuses like molestation to leave people feeling so minimized. Parental or spousal indifference or dismissal - or at least the belief that it exists - can have a similar effect. If the world outside the home seems to be conspiring in the mistreatment, the sense of invalidation grows worse still. It may be true that none of us suffer a lost job, a busted romance or a failed exam...
...what was regarded as the duty of every able-bodied citizen to protect the state. This is not the same as authorizing every citizen to keep arms for private purposes. The enemies of the U.S. have progressed to methods and weapons against which a gun-bearing militia would be powerless. Opponents of gun control have the right to argue their case, but reliance on an anachronistic provision does not appear to be a sound argument. Sundara Venkatesan, Mumbai...
...writes in an e-mail. “This decision has the potential to be seriously detrimental to both music culture in the area and to youth culture in the area.” Furthermore, Hufstedler asserts, those most affected by the law are often powerless to do anything about it.“The population this restriction targets is often not Boston or Massachusetts residents,” she writes, “and, therefore, often doesn’t have the power of the vote to influence city legislators, nor are they traditionally the group with the greatest...