September 17, 2021 Another in a series of observations of life as I know it. As soon as politicians have learnt to buy political support from the ‘public purse’, and conditioned electorates to embrace looting and bribery, the democratic process reduces itself to the formation of ‘distributional coalitions’ – electoral majorities mortared together by common interest in a collectively advantageous pattern of theft.
Do good fences make good neighbors?
Do good fences make good neighbors?
Do good fences make good neighbors?
September 17, 2021 Another in a series of observations of life as I know it. As soon as politicians have learnt to buy political support from the ‘public purse’, and conditioned electorates to embrace looting and bribery, the democratic process reduces itself to the formation of ‘distributional coalitions’ – electoral majorities mortared together by common interest in a collectively advantageous pattern of theft.