Writes Chris Kaiser:

Robert Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers” was on TV today. It is set in a global totalitarian police state, where only citizens are allowed to vote, and where military service bestows citizenship. A few minutes into the movie, a teacher is lecturing his students on why voting is entrusted only to citizens. He states, “When you vote, you are exercising political authority. You are using force, and force, my friends, is violence…the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived.” The point being that only someone schooled in the military has the moral authority to exercise force over civilians. Even coming from a fictional advocate of such a state, it was ironic to hear the act of voting boiled down to its essence so eloquently: “When you vote you are exercising political authority. You are using force, and force, my friends, is violence.”

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