In this, we find Zinn proclaiming that “voting is easy and marginally useful”.

Not to make too fine a point, but “voting” is the climax of a corporate-sponsored freak show known as the electoral process — and on an individual basis, that proud and innocent trip to the ballot box involves an intentional subjugation of will and an astonishing cession of personal power — a wholesale abandonment of responsibility to every evil rooted in re-presentation. The real utility and value of voting is not merely “marginal” to our masters, and the “ease” with which the electorate can be happily herded to the polls is vital to the guise of “democracy” and the subsequent manipulation and certification of the results as a means of further concentrating the empire’s wealth and power.