Today’s Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.
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The two purposes of propaganda
All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived.
The career of a politician
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician — stated rather bluntly — is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
The politician’s alternative
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
Political language
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidarity to pure wind.
Appeasement
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
The worst of the worst
Given the current administration, Michael Avenatti would have been better as president.
The evil of a two-party system
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
Conservatives vs. liberals
Conservative: (n.) A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Liberty vs. force
Politics must be the battle of the principles … the principle of liberty against the principle of force.