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50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know
50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know | Ben Dupre
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At a time of corrosive popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the fundamental concepts of politics has never been greater: the forces of Terrorism and Fundamentalism endanger our Security, while government responses to it pose a basic threat to Liberty, Democracy and Human rights. Corruption, Spin and a suspect Political culture arouse public indignation, which is further aggravated by an array of Pressure groups and the far-from-disinterested attentions of the Mass media. In 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know, Ben Dupre clears away the murk that obscures key concepts that we ignore at our peril.
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BarbaraBB Sarkozy was always only thinking of Sarkozy... such a vain little man. 5y
keithmalek @BarbaraBB I agree with him on this. 5y
BarbaraBB Literally me too but I think he just is being ironical about Muslims and think that is offensive. They form a big part of his population and no, they won‘t generally circumcise their daughters. 5y
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As Evelyn Waugh observed in his wartime novel Put Out More Flags (1942): "The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."

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"Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder." --George Bernard Shaw

(I don't necessarily agree with this, but it's an interesting quotation).

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Dupre goes on to write:

It is for this reason that despotisms, unlike tyrannies, are typically long-lasting and stable and are not marked by problems of succession.

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"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." --James Madison

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