[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry TrumanTag: power democracy funny elections government president political-science politics-observation politicians democrats republicans democracy-freedom democracy-voting democracy-fascism politics-science politicsics
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
Kevin Alan LeeTag: politics society philosophy psychology humanism memoir government medicine culture political-science psychiatry socialism health-care mental-illness schizophrenia medical reference health-care-system split-mind
This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power.
(Žižek, S. "Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks." London Review of Books 33.2 (2011): 9-10. )
Tag: philosophy paradoxes political-science public wikileaks
This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power.
Slavoj ŽižekTag: philosophy paradoxes political-science wikileaks
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.
Herbert MarcuseTag: philosophy capitalism political-science social-science
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.
Karl MarxTag: philosophy capitalism class-struggle marx political-science
Every election is determined by the people who show up.
Larry J. SabatoTag: liberty freedom democracy elections responsibility vote voters voting political-science politics-observation democrats republicans voting-rights democracy-freedom democracy-voting democracy-fascism politics-science politicsics
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
Otto von BismarckTag: power democracy elections responsibility government political-science politics-observation politics-science politicsics
Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong… This [is] mostly BS.
Jeffrey A. MillerTag: democracy free-speech media elections political-science politics-observation democrats republicans democracy-freedom democracy-voting democracy-fascism politics-science politicsics
In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.
Niccolò MachiavelliTag: politics strategy warfare political-science
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