Check this thread that's been recently posted...
What's it going to take to get this insect to leave the world in peace???
Well, to each his own, but for my money that may be the single silliest statement about politics that I've ever heard or seen.
Nietzche, for all his idiocy, had this one right: ''Politics is the art of taking from one class to give to the other.''
He deliberately did not mention the famed ''middle-class'', and he could not -- it did not exist in his day.
These days, with a well-defined middle class in most civilised nations, the game has changed. It's a matter of who can persuade or coerce the ''middle class'' that government can spend money more wisely than they can, AND continue to pay for their comforts conveniently. Not an unreasonable premise, and highly effective, too, because the middle class generally is far more interested in their immediate comforts than in political dialectic; they vote once every year, or two years, or four, and consider themselves good citizens by doing so. This consideration is false, of course, but is an easy pretention, and soothing to them.
Who wants to answer THIS comment from 1947, presented in a fictional work but undeniably true, then as now:
''..if the race is simply to stay alive, political decisions depend on real knowledge of such things as nuclear physics, planetary ecology (1947, mind, before the concept of ecology was politicised to such a degree as to be worthless in honest discussion), genetic theory, even system mechanics.''
(just fun trivia -- the author of that quote is well known, and won dozens of literary awards; the work in which it appeared is less well-known. So, who, and which work? The prize is a genuine original Krug Electric, and a book whose covers are GUARANTEED to be separated by enough pages of real paper as to keep them apart.)
Science is NOT, never has been, a regime of democracy; no society that intends to survive will ever have a plebescite about the CORRECT atomic number of copper.
What the modern-day ''democrats'', not the party but those who espouse the idea -- the PC bastards, the radical egalitarians, the anarchists seeking respectability, the iron rice-bowl unionists (...and I'm very pleased to have borrowed that phrase from one of our colleagues here!), and the parasitic bureauweenies, who, most of them, couldn't find honest work short of applying to MickeyD's -- want is the subservience of their fellow citizens. Indeed, they believe, right down to the bottom of their soles, that such obeisance is their RIGHT, and they resent, even to the point of slander, libel, and outright treason, any who would argue against them.
OK, OK, /rant off