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    Whether a country is a democracy or not depends on whether its people are really the masters of the country. If the people are awakened only for voting but enter a dormant period soon after, if they are given a song and dance during campaigning but have no say after the election, or if they are favored during canvassing but are left out in the cold after the election, such a democracy is not a true democracy.

    —Xi Jinping

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        and then show two more panels, one of campaign Obama saying to Planned Parenthood that his first priority would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, and another panel after he’s president and at iirc his first press conference says “Now, the Freedom of Choice Act is not my highest legislative priority,”