"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Hating Your Mirror Image
"Mostovskoy is in agony. He is now forced to admit to himself that he has had those doubts for a long time, that he hated his own party, the camps, the trials, Lubyanka, Ezhov, Beriya. ""By the end of the conversation the old revolutionary is broken. The psychological torture of being shown how his beloved party and ideology are in every respect the same as the party and the ideology of the hated mortal enemy, that in the enemy, as in a mirror, he hates himself and everything he believes in..."
Thanks Paul Bonneau.
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Brilliant! A must read. Completely sums up the 2012 election.
Yes, Eric Field, and for every election for as far back as this old fart can remember.
Even today, ...they [virtually everyone] simply say, “I submit to this decision, and I accept it as a member [citizen] of the government. . .”
"And the nightmare of the hated face in the mirror continues. Not for long." ~ Bojidar Marinov
Not for long?! How long is long, Bojidar? More than __________ ? Less than__________ ?