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polity
"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
"What of all the promises politicians have made
to get elected that have never been fulfilled? People
who lie regularly to further their own ends are rogues and rogues are not
principled people." - John Kozy
Is 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 |
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is
politics with bloodshed."
- Mao Zedong
"You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest."
– Ambrose Bierce
"In the current political climate in
America, it is absolutely crucial to examine the
links between corporate interests and
government activity." - Curry Chandler
0911/07
"Like it or not , dirty tricks have always been
part of campaigns, and for one simple
reason - because they work. We'd like to believe
differently, but the truth is that
campaigns aren't won because of
ideals or powerful speeches or the better
candidate; they're street fights in which
you do anything and everything you can
to win.
No law can ever prevent the basic
dirty tricks that win elections.
What really needs to happen is for
voters to learn how campaign operatives
use demographics to manipulate them and lead
them down the broad path.
Knowing how the machine works would give them the
ability to pause and decide if the choices they make at the ballot box are
merely reactionary or are truly in their best interest. 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
"I find it insulting to be constantly reminded by
the media not to throwaway my vote; on the contrary,
my conscience tells me that expressing my
true preference always makes me a better
citizen." - Joseph Saint-Clair
02/08
"Our votes for the presidential candidates were
cast based on our study of their past actions, practices and
moral and fiscal
integrity, these cannot be altered by ads that talk about everything else." -
Richard Rorex 02/08
"I'm losing interest in superstar politicians who
are bent on wowing us and herding us along. I'm tired of the constant chant:
strive for excellence as we
compete,
compete and
compete. It's time we slowed down and
took a pause. Noise pollution is excessive while we build, build, build. Air
pollution, a byproduct of the mad dash to make
cash, is hurting our lungs and eyes." - Fred Weber
"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." - Christopher Lynn Hedges
Crafty; cunning.
Of or pertaining to
polity, or civil
government.
Using or marked
by prudence,
expedience, and shrewdness;
artful.
Smoothly agreeable and courteous
with a degree of sophistication.
Using, displaying, or proceeding
from policy; judicious: a politic decision.
Pertaining to, or promoting,
a policy, especially a national policy;
adapted to its end, whether right or
wrong.
Sagacious in promoting a
policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a
scheme or system rather than to a
principle; hence, in a
good sense,
wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad
sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning;
expedient.
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 extremists as opposed to simply disagreeing with the
false consensus bias.
"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 expediency decisions, 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
"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
"The subordination of
science to politics on everything from
global warming to
reproductive health has become
a hallmark of the George W. 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.
"If the 33% of Americans who think
George W. Bush should be
impeached took to the streets to peaceably
express their views, that would be almost 100 million marchers -
enough to wake up even the most somnolent of politicians.
If the 47% of
Americans who think American troops
should leave Iraq ASAP actually
marched on Washington, our troops would
already be on their way home.
If the 60% of Americans who disapprove of
George W. Bush's job performance
decided to stage a peaceful sit-in outside the
White House, they'd spill over
into a dozen neighboring states, and the American
political machine would grind to a screeching halt." -
Rosa Brooks
"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
"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 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, tergiversation and, sometimes, 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
"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, separate 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
"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 way
of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who
pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell
"Current conditions show "the best and the
brightest" are not attracted to political careers. Given the kinds of
legislation that the Congress has enacted consistently, one could easily argue
that Congress attracts the worst and dullest." - John
Kozy
A politician is defined as:
One who
holds or seeks a political office.
One
who is actively involved in politics,
especially party politics.
One who
seeks personal or partisan gain, often by scheming and maneuvering.
One who is
skilled or experienced
in the science or administration of
government.
A schemer who tries to
gain advantage in an organization in sly or under
handed ways.
One primarily
devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the
success of a political
party; used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted
or attached to politics as managed by
parties; a
schemer; an
intriguer.
" 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
"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
"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 SantisTo be a politician in
America today an individual is required to be
corrupt!
American politicians give ‘favors' for
campaign contributions!
American politicians steer
government work to campaign contributors!
American politicians rig the
system to exclude
true competition!
American politicians kowtow to
lobbyists,
campaign contributors,
celebrities, powerful
CEO'S AND FOREIGN
GOVERNMENTS!
American
politicians represent
American aristocracy not the ordinary
working American citizen!
"What we need is less
political campaigning, with its big,
manufactured emotions, and more nakedly
consumer oriented policies for ordinary
people who base so many critical decisions on their wallets. Big business makes
its decisions based on cost all the time, but we voters
lack the information to comparison shop candidates and to make smart political
purchases." -
Erin Aubry
Kaplan
"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
By definition a politician must be
spiritually corrupt as they
must be able to convince multiple contradictory
perspectives that, actually, all those
respective contradictory
perspectives are compatible.
"Since a politician never believes what he says,
he is surprised when others believe him."
– Charles
DeGaulle
In
reality government
decree means someone 'wins' and someone
'loses', in the intensely competitive
materialistic consumption
driven American culture
of the indifferent, personally
egocentric social order.
And the most socially advanced
liars,
politicians, endure through successful
deception as their corrupt egocentric personalities are made to
seem harmless by the complicit approval of mass
media propaganda!
"Our representatives are in charge of spending
trillions of dollars each year. With that much wealth
running through their fingers, the job has attracted people who
know how to enrich themselves from the mere act of
spending, while persuading us to send them back for more. Starting with
exorbitant campaign financing to get
the job, then moving to pork-barrel politics during
the job, we have created not the "wise and frugal" government that
Jefferson envisioned but a bloated
aristocracy of sticky-fingered spenders." -
Bill Decker
"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, thoroughly 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
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
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