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"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is
politics with bloodshed."
Mao
Zedong
"No great advance has ever been made in science,
politics, or religion, without controversy." - Lyman Beecher
1910 Banker's Magazine
jubilantly declared that due to corporate financing of politics:
"The
legislature and executive powers of the government are compelled to listen to
the demands of organized
corporate interests.
That they are not entirely controlled by these
interests is due to the fact that
corporate organization has
not yet reached its full perfection."
"What I've learned is
that the most troublesome people don't tell you 100% of the story, and keep
some facts to themselves. They just don't give you the full picture, and that's
very worrisome to me." - Penny
Pritzker
"The language of political reporting is filled with
accounts of staging and backdrops, camera angles and scripts, sound bites and
spin control, photo opportunities and corporate media gurus." - Kiku
Adatto
"If you control and shape the way people talk and
think about politics, it is much easier to influence them to give you their vote." -
Paul Harris
"You cannot adopt politics as a profession and
remain honest."
Ambrose Bierce politics are defined
as;
policy
crafty;
cunning
of or pertaining to polity, or civil
government
using or
marked by prudence, expedience, and artful
shrewdness
smoothly agreeable and
courteous with a degree of sophistication
"The political merchandisers
appeal only to the weaknesses of voters, never to their potential strength.
They make no attempt to educate the masses into becoming fit for
self-government; they are content merely to manipulate and exploit them.
For this purpose
all the resources of psychology and the social sciences are mobilized and set
to work.
Carefully selected samples of the electorate are given
"interviews in depth." These interviews in depth reveal the unconscious fears
and wishes most prevalent in a given society at the time of an election.
Phrases and images aimed at allaying or, if necessary, enhancing these
fears, at satisfying these wishes, at least symbolically, are then chosen by
the experts, tried out on readers and audiences, changed or improved in the
light of the information thus obtained.
After which the political
campaign is ready for the mass communicators.
All that is now needed is
money and a candidate who can be coached to look "sincere."
Under the
new dispensation, political principles and plans for specific action have come
to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate and the way
he is projected by the advertising experts are the things that really matter."
- Aldous Huxley
 
"Like it or not , dirty tricks have always been
part of campaigns, and for one simple reason - because they work. They're
street fights in which you do
anything and everything you can to win. Most voters are led by the nose to
the voting booth still convinced their ballot is cast of
free will." - Allen Raymond,
political campaign manager 02/08"Most people prefer to
believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the face of evidence to
the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under
which he lives is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she
will do about it. To take action in the face of corrupt government entails
risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender
one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the
courage to face that choice. Hence, most
propaganda is not designed to fool the
critical thinker but only to
give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all." - Michael Rivero
"We
live in a culture characterized by what Benjamin DeMott called "junk politics."
Junk politics does not demand justice or the reparation of rights. It always
personalizes issues rather than clarifying them. It eschews real debate for
manufactured scandals, celebrity gossip and spectacles. It trumpets
eternal optimism, endlessly praises our
moral strength and character, and communicates in a feel-your-pain language.
The result of junk politics is that nothing changes, "meaning zero interruption
in the processes and practices that strengthen existing, interlocking systems
of socioeconomic advantage." - Chris Hedges
political expediency
"In modern terminology, we would say that when you
substitute political expediency for natural law (which is what idolatry
amounts to), you are in for trouble: civilization becomes decadent and
declines." - Frank Chodorov "To say that government
ought to do that which is "expedient," or to do that which will tend to produce
the "greatest happiness," or to do that which will subserve the "general good,"
is to say just nothing; for there is
infinite disagreement
regarding the natures of these desiderata. A definition of which the terms are
indefinite is an absurdity. Whilst the practical
interpretation of
"expediency" remains a matter of opinion, to say
that a government should do that which is "expedient," is to say that it should
do, what we think it should do!
The expediency-philosophy ignores a world full of facts. It
considers the philosophy of humanity so easy, the constitution of the social
organism so simple, the causes of a people's conduct so obvious, that a general
examination can give to "collective wisdom," the insight requisite for
law-creation. The expediency-philosophy
thinks that
man's intellect is competent, first, to observe accurately the
facts exhibited by associated human nature; to form just estimates of general
and individual character, of the effects of
religions,
traditions,
superstitions,
prejudices, of the mental tendencies of
the age, of the probabilities of future events, &c., &c.; and then,
grasping at once the multiplied
phenomena of this
ever-agitated, ever-changing sea of life, to derive from them that
knowledge of their governing principles which
shall enable him to say whether such and such measures will conduce to "the
greatest happiness of the greatest number."
Here, then, we have a
rationale of the expediency-ideology of
government. It is the latest and most refined form assumed by this disposition
to exalt the state at the expense of the individual. Between that old eastern
regime under which the citizen was
the private property of his ruler, having no
rights at all, and that final state under which his rights will be entire and
inviolable, there comes this intermediate state in which he is allowed to
possess rights, but only by sufferance of parliament. Thus the expediency -
philosophy falls naturally into its place as a
phenomena attending our
progress from past slavery to future
freedom. Like each of its predecessors, it is natural to a certain phase of
human development. And it is fated to lose its hold as fast as our adaptation
to the complex social state increases.
As far as the state is concerned
again comes the inquiry - how does expediency-philosophy propose to determine between what
should be attempted and what should not? To escape the charge of political
empiricism, the polity must show us some scientific test by which we can in
each case determine whether or not state-superintendence is desirable. Between
the one extreme of entire non-interference, and the other extreme in which
every citizen is to be transformed
into a grown-up baby, "with bib and pap-spoon," there lie innumerable stopping
places; and he who would have the state do more than protect is required to say
where he means to draw the line, and to give us substantial
reasons why it must be just there and nowhere
else.
The proper constitution of governments, their duties, and the
limits to their action must be arrived at out of an endless labyrinth of
confused debate concerning the policy of these or those public measures, it
openly short and easily-discerned ways; and the conclusions it leads to are
enforced, both generally, by an abundant experience of the fallacy of expedient
decision, and specially, by numerous
arguments bearing on each successive
question.
If the true end of this conflict of opinion is to keep social arrangements in
harmony with the average
character of the people; and if the
honest opinion held by each man of any given state of things is not an
intellectual accident, but indicates a preponderating fitness or unfitness
of that state of things to his moral condition; then it follows
that only by a universal manifestation of honest opinions can harmony between
social arrangements and the average popular
character be preserved." - Herbert Spencer
science and
politics
"The only thing I can figure is that people are
numb to the unabashed lies and
distortions out of the
nation's capital. We're living in a time, after all, in which a government
report on global warming was toned
down by a White House "science advisor" who then quit to go to work for
ExxonMobil." -Steve Lopez
"The subordination of science to politics on everything from
global warming to
reproductive health has
become a hallmark of the George Walker Bush administration. It is particularly
unfortunate to see the politicization of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Once considered the exemplar of true
scientific and
independent public health recommendations, the collateral damage of political
meddling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now
manifest in even the journalistic approach framing the debate over mercury in
childhood vaccines.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention's position on the issue, and its alliance with the American
Academy of Pediatrics, are described in the same vein as are "financial
ties" that the vaccine manufacturers might have with the academy.
It is
as if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is just another
special interest that takes sides on controversial issues, rather than being a
neutral scientific
entity charged with performing the hard work of
developing the consensus
necessary to preserve and promote the health of the public.
One can
only wonder what the consequences will be
of this loss of an independent voice should a major public health catastrophe
occur." - Kevin Patrick, professor of Family and Preventive Medicine
University of California San Diego, editor-in-chief of the American
Journal of Preventive Medicine.
theological
politicsIs it not remarkable, this
similitude between theology (the science of
religion) and politics (the science of
the state), this convergence of two apparently
contrary orders of thoughts and facts are based upon one and the same
conviction: that of the necessity of sacrificing human liberty in order to make
men into moral beings, according
to some, and virtuous
citizens, according to others?
We are
convinced that politics and theology are both closely related, stemming from
the same origin and pursuing the same aim under two different names; we are
convinced that every state is
a terrestrial religion, just as every religion with
its heaven the abode of the
blessed and the immortal gods - is nothing but a
celestial state." - Mikhail
Bakunin
policy
"The rationale for careful social experimentation
begins by admitting that we are already in the midst of many grand experiments.
Social experimentation is not rare and underutilized. It is common, but
often done poorly.
Political administrations regularly run experiments
of sorts that impose substantial burdens on the public, with little more than
anecdotes and impressions to back them up.
At present, most policy
proposals are ventures in social speculation of one sort or another. Whether
successful or not, policy experiments are always under way." - JD Trout
"We blame anything that goes wrong not on the
gods of the sky but on the gods in Washington."
Max Boot
"The most corrupt body in the country is the
Congress. I will concede that not all members are on the take. But they all
know about it, and no one does anything about it." - Dick De Santis
"If you can't
eat lobbyists meals,
drink their liquor, sleep with their women and then vote against them, you have
no business being a politician." - Jesse
Unruh
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more
dangerous way of making decisions
than by putting those decisions in the
hands of people who pay no price for being wrong ! " – Thomas Sowell
"Americans need to
face up to the fact that we need people in public office who are better able to
deal with tough problems. All those running for office don't have the right
kind of expertise.
Lawyers, politicians and power seekers
generally are not - as much as they may think they are - capable of resolving
our problems. Problem solving requires people who are able to identify basic
cause, seperate it from effect, examine the options, consider
paradigm shifts when appropriate,
select the optimum course of action and then implement a success oriented plan
of action." - George Epstein
"The idea that anyone would base his or her vote on
a candidate's "trustworthiness" is absurd. Most politicians started out as
lawyers, silver-tongued barristers whose very
job description involves bending the truth and outright lying. The idea that
anyone would reject
Hillary
Clinton, a lawyer, in favor of
Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer, or John
Edwards, a lawyer, or
Barack Obama, a
lawyer, or Mitt Romney, a lawyer, is pitiful. Of course these people aren't
trustworthy. They're lawyers! What kind of a
country do you think we're running here?" - Joe Queenan
a politician is defined
as:
one who holds or seeks a political office
one who seeks
personal or partisan gain, often by scheming and
maneuvering
Politicians think entirely differently than the
average American. When politicians
fallaciously believe that their thoughts mirror the thoughts of average
Americans then they have fallen into the trap of the
false consensus bias. This
false consensus bias is
a construct of corporate
propaganda.
A politician who has developed
a way of perceiving reality based
on the starting point of a false consensus bias will
inevitably be unable to make judgements out of the context of that
false consensus bias
Those Americans that do not neatly line up behind the
false consensus bias are
considered to be uncivil immoral politically incorrect extremists as opposed to
simply disagreeing with the false consensus
bias.
"The enormous gap between what American
leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one
of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology." -
Michael Parenti |
political corruption
"Since a politician never believes what he
says,
he is surprised when others believe him."
Charles
DeGaulle
"I feel sorry for people who
worship politicians, for the
simple reason that the best politicians are the best
liars. While I am
aware that they perform
necessary deeds, I also know what sorts of dastardly things they have to do to
gain power in the first place." - Gregory Rodriquez
"So, the soon-to-be-indicted are returning some
portion of Jack Abramoff's
bribes, um, I mean gifts. They've already used the money and
influence to get what they wanted. Their
action is the equivalent of my shooting you and then giving your family the
brass shell casings from my gun so that they can recycle the metal to cover
your funeral costs. Since these folks endlessly trumpet their values, I guess
there's some value in that - 3 or 4 cents anyway."- Kevin Cavanaugh
A politician must be able
to con-vince constituents that the multiple contradictory perspectives of MICE
culture are, in actuality, compatible.
In truth
government decree means
someone 'wins' and someone
'loses', in the intensely competitive,
indifferent, personally
egocentric social
order.
The most socially advanced psychopaths, politicians,
endure throughout their successfully deceptive
charade as their corrupt egocentric
personalities are made to seem harmless by the complicit approval of mass media
propaganda!
political
language
"Most real political discourse makes use of
subconscious thought, which shapes conscious
thought via unconscious framing and commonplace conceptual metaphors." - George
Lakoff "When one watches some tired political hack on
the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases -- bestial
atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand
shoulder to shoulder -- one often has
a curious feeling that one is not
watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which
suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker's
spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind
them.
And this is not altogether fanciful.
A speaker who uses
that kind of phraseology has gone some
distance toward turning himself into a machine.
The appropriate
noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would
be if he were choosing his words for himself.
If the speech he is
making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be
almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the
responses in church.
And this reduced state of consciousness, if not
indispensable, is at any rate favorable to political
conformity.
In our
time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Things like the continuance of British rule in
India, the Russian purges and
deportations, the dropping of the
atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments
which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the
professed aims of the political parties.
Thus political language has to
consist largely of euphemism, question begging
and sheer cloudy vagueness.
Defenseless villages are
bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the
cattle machine gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is
called pacification.
Millions of peasants are
robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they
can carry: this is called transfer of population or
rectification of frontiers.
People are
imprisoned for years without
trial, or
shot
in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in
Arctic lumber camps: this is
called elimination
of unreliable elements." - George
Orwell
political advertising
"I speak of the art of political advertising.
American politicians expend untold billions of dollars on campaign commercials.
Not only do these ads all appear to have been produced by the same
vicious idiot, it appears that this
vicious idiot has been
lobotomized and then
repeatedly concussed. The ads are both a commentary on the emptiness of our
political discourse - a parody if you like - and a refutation of that
emptiness, or a triumph over it, a reinsertion of brute content, a silent
explosion of truth into a world of mere and moronic fiction. Our politicians
are voids or spreading zones of emptiness, a set of focus-grouped phrases and
nice outfits, a congeries of cliches, representations of which there is no
reality." - Crispin Sartwell
"When all men think alike, no one thinks
very much.
When distant and
unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people,
the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion.
The
complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the
dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Successful politicians are
insecure and intimidated men.
They
advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or
otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their
constituencies.
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the
loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see,
perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an
imposition on his good nature and an insult
to his sense of evidence.
The time has come to stop beating our heads
against stone walls under the illusion that
we have been appointed policeman to the
human race.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine
knowledge and to a divine mission.
They are possessed with
the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
We are all captives of the image in our mind
- our belief that the reality we have experienced is the reality that really
exists.
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding
reality - introspection.
We
discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of
knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves." -
Walter
Lippmann
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