The power of people comes in huge upsurges of condemnation, aggression and appeasement. The political world is upside down and self centred and in general the people have very little part to play in the running of their affairs. So should we wish to build a hospital or show compassion for one of our citizens then these things can be achieved through struggle, unrest and often violence. The riots in Manchester and Liverpool being a case in point where the peoples unrest resulted in violence which resulted in appeasement in the shape of regeneration schemes set to keep them all occupied for years to come. A tiny investment of £60 million pounds, a drop in the ocean. Order restored for the cost of a couple of harrier jump jets and a handful of missiles. Just so that our political system can maintain the status quo and let good people do good things.
So lets say you are very, very wealthy and you would like to get even wealthier by doing things that are not very nice. Lets say you want to build a superstore on a beauty spot or expand an airport polluting the Sky's. What if you could make even more billions of pounds by selling harmless or harmfull drugs to the citizens. Maybe you want to make money proving they work in the first place through flawed evidence. Well thats all well and good but your fellow man is not going to be rioting in the street to support you are they. Your on your own... Unless. nah. Unless you could buy some friends. Not normal friends but big friends, like powerful political friends. Ah the answer. Party politics yes you could give some of your millions to them in numerous ways. Thats it.
Thats the Cynics Wife Theory of politics. Hence our political system dictates that "We are bound to have a government which works against the wishes of the majority"
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