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THE ELECTION PROCESS: TRIAL BY ORDEAL

It’s been said before and I’m going to say it again: the presidential election process is a ridiculous, wasteful, abusive–and even repulsive—ordeal for candidates and citizens alike. Probably the most visible part of the pageantry of our democracy, it’s a prolonged, dehumanizing, often humiliating assault on the dignity of those we’d like to be able […]