How Shall We Vote?

How Shall We Vote?

In last year’s U.S. pavillion at the Montreal World’s Fair I noticed a sign reading:

Hall of the Great Society
—Emergency Exit.

Let’s take that exit right now! After the obscene happening at Chicago that went by the name of Democratic National Convention this conclusion seems inescapable.

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