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John Dean: I happen to be a glass-half-full type of person. I think there is hope. I have long ago given up on people who are apathetic about government. I think people really have a right to be bad as citizens, if that's what they want to be. For years, I've looked at the studies of what will get people interested in government and interested in the way it operates, and how to become active in it. And every one of them fails. They never really make any difference. It's just a factor that Americans are always going to rank amongst the world's democracies as the least caring about their system.
The good news is that there are enough people who do care, who are, in a sense, proxies for those who don't. I take some comfort in that. If you give these people the facts, they will make the right decision. My parallel has always been, because I find it terribly instructive, the American jury system. It is democracy in a miniature, a micro situation. You take twelve people from different walks of life, different levels of education, give them facts, give them what the rules are. And 99 out of 100 times, they will come out with the right decision.
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