Casting your vote this week may be the most significant civic act you will ever perform. Not just because the apocalyptic dimensions of the economic crisis mean that, in practical terms, the next government's decisions will be a matter of national life and death. Not just because the outcome could result in a restructuring of our party politics and even of our constitutional arrangements. Both those things are awesome enough. But for those of us who see political argument as a thunderous clash of philosophies – the arena in which abstract principles meet real human experience to debate the fundamental question, "How should men live?" – this election is momentous.
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