The Battle of Athens

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)

Long read, but I promise you, it is worth it. This is what needs to happen again in a lot of places.

 

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The movie is pretty good, and follows the first person accounts with relative accuracy.

https://www.amazon.com/An-American-Story-Hallmark/dp/B0002QG98E

 

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Whoops, full movie

 

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Back then they needed to keep those whose votes they did not want to vote out of the booth. Today they have some polling places where they do the counting and others where they dilute the vote with ineligible voters. Times are a changing.

But my dad used to say the more things change the more they stay the same.