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Robert Billyard's avatar

Eighty years ago French Philosopher Simone Weil told us everything we have to know about political parties :

“Therefore the essential tendency of all political parties is towards totalitarianism, first on the national scale and then on the global scale. And it is precisely because the notion of the public interest which each party invokes is itself a fiction, an empty shell devoid of all reality, that the quest for total power becomes an absolute need. Every reality necessarily implies a limit – but what is utterly devoid of existence cannot possibly encounter any form of limitation. It is for this reason that there is a natural affinity between totalitarianism and mendacity.”—

Weil, Simone. On the Abolition of All Political Parties (NYRB Classics) (pp. 15-16). New York Review Books. Kindle Edition

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AussieManDust's avatar

Led by a senile gerontokakistocracy, owned by same. The Human Consciousness is stuck in Georgian Times... die/ peasants/pissants/die...

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