LONDON ¨C In a scene in the 1975 movie ¡°Monty Python and the Holy Grail,¡± King Arthur roams around the English countryside attempting to gather knights for the Round Table. When he declares, ¡°I am your king!¡± to a deeply unimpressed peasant, her response is both absurd and blindingly obvious.
¡°Well, I didn¡¯t vote for you,¡± she says.
Quite.

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