[Steely Tom]

O’Sullivan’s Law: “All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.”

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics:

1.)Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

2.)Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.

3.)The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.

John Derbyshire adds this:

Of the Second Law, Conquest gave the Church of England and Amnesty International as examples. Of the Third, he noted that a bureaucracy sometimes actually is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies — e.g. the postwar British secret service.