One of the most defining of B Franklin's quotes Is "We are giving you a democracy, If you can keep it"!
The Revolutionary War lasted 8 years of some of the most horrifying combat anyone can imagine. Single shot rifles & bayonets, starvation, rape, frostbite, disease & they did it for a budding democracy. Today fully 1/3rd of eligible voters don't? We can't take a few hours every couple of years.
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