The ancient Greek philoso­pher Pla­to (427–347 BC) wrote: “One of the penal­ties for refus­ing to par­tic­i­pate in pol­i­tics is that you end up being gov­erned by your infe­ri­ors.” For those whose par­tic­i­pa­tion includes choos­ing from the bloat­ing melange of medi­oc­rity being offered for the upcom­ing effort to pre­serve Amer­i­can democ­ra­cy, it might help to apply the Latin word, “col­ligere , the ori­gin of the word “cull”.… Read the rest