This is another post in the topical series that features alarming and pessimistic politics-related quotations.
These words from Taylor Caldwell appear in the article about the lack of honour in politics:
“An honest politician is either a hypocrite—or he is doomed.”
Upton Sinclair wrote something that supports this proposition:
“Such was the new technique for the conquest of power. Fool those who were foolable, buy those who were buyable, and kill the rest.”
From Wide Is the Gate (1943)
The above extract reminds me of how potential troublemakers are dealt with in John Christopher's Guardians:
“We are constantly on the alert for trouble...Anyone showing creative intelligence and initiative stands out conspicuously from the mob and can be dealt with.”
“Dealt with” means eliminated!
Upton Sinclair is yet another writer whose life and works I hope to investigate when I have more time.
