To win at politics requires commitment, and the committed party is the one to whose constituents politics offers the only chance of advancement.
Mar 152019
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?
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.
Jan 172019
The savage’s hatred of the civilized man does little harm, unless abetted by the civilized man’s hatred of himself.
Jan 082019
Leninism is not communist any more than Catholicism is Christian: they are programs for the respective containment of communism and Christianity.
Jan 032019
Dullness is so prevalent in high places that it has come to be regarded as an obligation.
Dec 212018
There are worse ways to judge a government than if the trains run on time.