Quote by Adlai Stevenson

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can gather votes like box tops -- is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office

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This quote suggests that treating candidates for high office like products to be sold is a demeaning act towards the principles of democracy. Comparing politicians to breakfast cereal and attempting to win votes through superficial tactics undermines the integrity and seriousness that should accompany the democratic process. It implies that reducing the political arena to a commercialized spectacle goes against the core values of authentic representation and meaningful decision-making in a democratic society.

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