Fear and Loathing in America by Hunter S. Thompson

“And I think we should also take a serious look at the health/prognosis for the whole idea of Participatory Democracy, in America or anywhere else. That, to me, is an absolutely necessary cornerstone for anything else we might or might not put together — because unless we’re honestly convinced that the Practice of Politics is worth more than just a short-term high or the kind of short-term money that power-pimps pay for hired guns, my own feeling is that we’ll be a lot better off avoiding all the traditional liberal bullshit and just saying it straight out: That we’re all just a bunch of fine-tuned Politics Junkies and we’re ready to turn Main Street into a graveyard in the name of anybody who’ll pay the price & even pretend to say the Right Things.”

-Hunter S. Thompson, 1974