The following precepts are the practical guide to becoming a politician. Study these maxims assiduously, follow them diligently, and your success in politics is assured. (You have my personal guarantee!) So to begin . . .
I. A politician must be popular. People like those who they perceive are like themselves. Most people are bigoted, stupid and vulgar; and so to be popular, a politician should eschew all cultural refinement as snobbish and elitist, and make himself a perfect philistine. His should be the hardy handshake and backslapping comradery among the masses; and it would be helpful to be at least proficient in kissing ugly babies.
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