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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.

Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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