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Short political dictionary

 
       

   
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Autocracy
(see democracy)
– government of a country by one person with absolute power.
Since the business of governing is a pretty complex there’s no person who can rule alone without delegating some of that “absolute” power. So in reality autocracy is same as democracy.

Democracy – system of government by all the people (sic!) of a country.
Basically it is a terror of majority. But more often it is a terror of minority or to be more precise terror of majority of minority who bothered to vote.
In USA due to college vote system currently on power is government "elected" by minority of minority – still they call it democracy.

Diplomacy – art of lying keeping straight face.

Elections – ritual exercised in "democracies". Allegedly, this ritual is giving legitimacy to politicians (see democracy).

Mass media / mainstream media

PR tools of goverments.
– hard drugs for masses.

Peace – time between wars.

Politics – matters concerned with acquiring or exercising power – dirty business.
Pigsty.

Politician someone involved in politics i.e. dirty person. By definition politicians are liars, cheaters and crooks. Phrase “honest politician” is contradictio in adjecto.
Nobody stays clean in pigsty.

Religion – Lenin wrote it is opium for masses. However, he was just partly right. It varies from marihuana to crack-cocaine for masses. In today’s world it is more often crack-cocaine or extasy.
* This is not applied to (roughly) 0.001% (if so many) of really religious people.

Terrorists – other side in the conflict. Because they are always “other side” it is hard for people outside of conflict to decide who is terrorist and who is freedom fighter, hence those two are often confused.

War – continuation of politics using military force (Bismarc) i.e. even dirtier than politics.
Period between times of peace.

  To be expanded...
 

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