“Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It’s true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies.
The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it’s that patterns are repeated. My oppressions, by and large, are no worse than any of the others and, at least, I teach a new lesson. —”
? Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert was rather prescient in this when it was before North Korean became a communist inherited monarchy and liberals were TRYING to create one via the Kennedy line and Clinton line.
If JFK’s son hadn’t died in that plane crash, you know the Democrats would have run him for office. They tried to elevate his daughter to Senator after the Kennedy Senator died. And the liberals are following the same pattern with trying to promote Chelsea Clinton and Michelle Obama for office.