Bonus HST Quote:
"How many more of these goddamn elections are we going to have to write off as lame, but “regrettably necessary” … and how many more of these stinking double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote for something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?
Now with another one of these big bogus showdowns looming down on us, I can already pick up the stench of another bummer. I understand, along with a lot of other people, that the big thing this year is Beating Nixon. But that was also the big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960 – and as far as I can tell, we’ve gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is for more of the same."
—Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in '72