"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
The Pointlessness Of Political Party Plurality
This desire – to hold on to the system and hope to reform it – is driven by fear; fear of the unknown, and indeed, in many cases, the ‘unthinkable’. Further, giving into the fear gifts oneself an easy to identify problem which can be ‘fixed’ whilst maintaining essentially the same paradigm.
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