“framing - the cunning technique of dumbing down complex, controversial issues and policies by using powerful, evocative, emotive catchphrases and images in order to prejudice and undermine any potential challenge to those polices.”
“framing creates a misguided belief that anyone who argued against such measures had to be, by definition, a villain trying to stop the innocent sufferers champion from giving them their medication, a coward shying away from a full-blown war against an aggressor, or - even worse - one too spineless to stand up to Hitler.”
“We ll elect any bumbling fool, any champion of mediocrity to the highest office in the land as long as they have God as their running mate.”
“Yelling God is on our side is very effective at rallying the masses. And at winning elections....”
“History s shown us time and again, that mixing religion and politics only brings destruction.”
“If we accept the Greek’s definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many citizens of many societies are indeed idiots.”
“You only corrupt to escape correctness and truth.”
“More than 43,000 children have visited the multimillion dollar sets of the Reagan Museum, where they can watch reenactments of various Reagan-led military interventions or play an interactive game called Operation Urgent Fury in which they decide whether to invade Grenada to save it from communism or not. American and Grenadian children thus continue to be placed in a very different relationship to power, resources, and decision-making. There are thus not only deep silences but also deep asymmetries in the recorded accounts of the Grenada Revolution.”
“Power to people doesn t mean power, it means responsibility.”
“Politicians come and politicians go, but reformers are eternal. And who is the reformer? Each and every human who is accountable for their society is the reformer.”
“Quit your job and shoot a politician.”
“What would my grandfather say? Ben thought. Politics is the art of chingando. Chinga aquí, chingá allá, chinga a todos iguales. The art of chingando was very democratic; everybody got screwed.”
“The problem with being conservative: 99% of your victories consist of saying no to the ideas that idiots want to adopt.”
“But if the thing is criminal, if, for instance, it is a license to commit adultery, the person who authorises the act shares the guilt of the person who commits it.”
“Your emotional intelligence welcomes a maturity which can, if need be, mentally separate your neighbors not from yourself, but from their faulty opinions.”
“It’s not a day we have to seize, it’s an era. We need a revolution, not a sticking plaster over a gaping wound. As Nietzsche said, we must revalue all values. We must redefine capitalism and change it from free-market capitalism (designed to serve globalists), to social capitalism (designed to serve all the citizens of the nation). We need to remove the plutocratic boot from the neck of democracy. We must seek to build a true meritocracy in a society free of monarchs, dynastic families, privilege, inheritance, cronyism and nepotism.”
“No one can talk about meritocracy in the UK until the monarchy has gone. This is the 21st century, for God’s sake. There is no justification for a monarchy. It symbolizes every conceivable force of anti-meritocracy and unequal opportunities: one rule for them and a different rule for everybody else. The only legitimate “monarch” would be one of Plato’s philosopher kings: the non-hereditary smartest person in the country. Imagine how different the UK would be if its head of state were its most intelligent person, from any background, rather than some old German pensioner with no discernible talents whatsoever. Mark Antony said to Octavian, “You, boy, owe everything to your name.” Likewise, the Queen of England owes everything to her name. She has nothing else to commend her.”