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“It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.”

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DeForest Soaries

DeForest Soaries is an American author born on August 20, 1951. His works primarily focus on historical, cultural, and political issues, and he is highly regarded for his insightful observations and unique narrative style. more

“My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. We've seen it time after time after time.”

People Believe Heart

Author:DeForest Soaries

“Voting in this country has essentially been relegated to a very fledging group of election officials, who receive no training and operate on shoestring budgets on one hand, and political consultants whose job is to get their candidates elected on the other. And when you have that kind of scenario, it's really hard to describe yourself as a vibrant democracy. It's an embarrassment.”

Kind Country Political Democracy Training Election Being Yourself Voting Embarrassment

Author:DeForest Soaries

“Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.”

Mean Democracy Vote Burden Intimidation Right To Vote

Author:DeForest Soaries

“I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in the way I was before. I do feel like it was a season in hell that I passed through. But now I'm in despair and sad and confused every day because of our political situation. So the question is: Is it harder or easier to be sad with a reason?”

Book Reason Political Situation Hell Trouble Despair Confused

Author:Claire Dederer

“The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself.”

Reflection Sexuality

Author:Claire Dederer

“The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms reflect that.”

People Book Culture Trouble Sexuality

Author:Claire Dederer

“Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used sex as a child.”

Thinking Children Drug Drinking

Author:Claire Dederer

“Drinking and drugging make it so your reality flies away from you. Your body and your mind are not present. I loved that feeling as a kid. For me, the strongest way to have that feeling was love and sex. Not only did I enjoy it - that feeling of being transported - but because I was so boy-identified, first as a tomboy and then as a girl who liked to sleep with boys.”

Mind Feelings Reality Kids Girl Enjoy Sleep Boys Drinking Fly Away

Author:Claire Dederer

“When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were things that I did to make myself sadder. It was almost as if I were luxuriant in my own melancholy. Looking at the diaries and thinking about my old self, thinking about my lost youth - that was part of that project of making myself totally miserable.”

Thinking Kids Youth Miserable Melancholy Touching Little Kid Really Sad Old Self

Author:Claire Dederer

“I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual desire and how strongly it rules me - this idea that we are lucky to feel something. Even if that something is sadness.”

Thinking Desire Sadness Lucky Teenager

Author:Claire Dederer

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