Howard Zinn Quotes
In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.
Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States. Harper & Row, 1980.
Madison was right on most things, but got this one wrong. Of course he did not anticipate the era of mass communication which makes demagoguery in large areas possible.
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become very critical of organized and orthodox religion of all kinds.
Owner of one of the only 2 Mexican Television Networks. There js no other industrial democracy that has a two party system; the others have 3 or more parties. Other democracies have their election day scheduled for a non-work day—usually a weekend. A number of states of the U. S. also allow voting on weekends and on multiple days. The individual states have the right (within limits) to set the time and rules of elections. Those states where conservatives have control tend to restrict voting as narrowly as they can, as their supporters tend to be more affluent and have jobs where they can vote on a Tuesday without economic penalty or family dislocation. Where liberals control, they tend to take steps to make voting very easy, especially of the poor and working class, as they have more supports in these groups.
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist thinker and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote over 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.
