Political scientists John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse wrote: "People are hardly in a mood to celebrate or even to tolerate politics just nowand why should they be? They have not been taught how to. They have not been taught that the politics they so despise is driven by their own diversity and by their own desire for liberty, progress, and self-government."

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