An expert torturer always reminds you that it’s for your own good, and hurts him more than you.
Apr 042019
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Apr 022019
To do the same thing over and over expecting different results is reputed to be insanity, and yet we persist in elections.
Mar 252019
Democracy is the conviction that my policy preferences are widely held, and populism is the fear that yours are.
Mar 192019
The end does not justify the means: it is the means.
Mar 152019
To win at politics requires commitment, and the committed party is the one to whose constituents politics offers the only chance of advancement.
Mar 112019
Rich societies produce leisure sufficient for folly, and democratic societies make this everybody’s problem.
Mar 012019
No sensible ruler tries to suppress ideas. It is a comparatively simple matter to suppress their implementation.
Feb 152019
Today’s atrocities are committed for Equality and Justice; tomorrow’s will be committed for Love.
Jan 302019
To be represented is the smallest aspiration.
Jan 282019
Progressive mores, which in the name of equality must be preached to and adopted by all, are mildly toxic to about a tenth of the population, crippling to two-thirds, and potentially fatal to the rest. For a few grifters they make a lucrative career.