Source: Time Enough for Love
“Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.”
"The Big Tease" (October 1972), p. 138
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)
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