I keep hearing Labour Party supporters lamenting the current state of the party. "I can't believe it's come to this," they say, "only two years after our historic landslide!" Propaganda can be a useful tool in the political game (political messages are, after all, always gross simplifications) - but believing your own propaganda only leads to disaster. If you want to succeed, you have to live in the real world.
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Posted by Paul Hazelden on January 9, 2022 at 10:48pm
I can't help but wonder if people in the centuries to come will look back at us, and laugh merrily at our strange belief in the divine right of voting, our commitment to the absolute power of unrestrained democracy.
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