Author Kevin Baker discussed his new Harper’s story Why Vote? Kevin noted the steady erosion of democracy and some of the political myths that Americans cling to, why this Presidential election matters, the extremism of Romney’s agenda and how the push for right-wing austerity economics is not isolated to the United States.

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