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"Libertarians: The Connies Speak Out (Part Two),"http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2005/tle339-20051002-02.html 2 October 2005.
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Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States.

— L. Neil Smith

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States." in the context of ""Libertarians: The Connies Speak Out (Part Two),"http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2005/tle339-20051002-02.html 2 October 2005." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About L. Neil Smith

Lester Neil Smith III (12 May 1946 – 27 August 2021), also known by his nickname El Neil, was a libertarian science fiction author and political activist, whose works include the novels Pallas, The Forge of the Elders, and The Probablity Broach, each of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel.