Can anyone recommend any funny novels about government and politics?
Buckley's Thank You For Smoking is the best satire of DC I've read - immensely clever and very very funny, especially if you have put in any time in that world. I found his others disappointing, but keep buying them because I keep hoping he'll hit that high again.
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How long can a government blame the previous government for its own problems?
Whenever there is a change of the political cycle and a long spell of one party being in office is being changed to another party winning the election and taking over the government of the country, there is always on part of the new government the kind of rhetoric how they need time to sort out the mess left behind by the previous government. Sometimes the new government spends its first term in office fretting about how much they have to repair the damage of the previous government and they even enter the election saying that we must re-elect them because they haven't fixed all the damage yet.
However, there is a time when it is no longer plausible to blame the previous government for the woes of the current government. Now that we are almost certainly going to get a Tory-government we are also certainly going to hear ad nauseam how "the legacy of the Labour-government has pushed them to take very drastic measures to correct the economy" etcetc. We might believe them or we might not believe them.
Every new government has so-called honeymoon-period after taking office. The length of that period varies depending on the circumstances. My belief is that the honeymoon-period of the Tory-government will be record short.
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Did CA implement the difference between a centralised government and a de-centralised government?
I wouldn't mind seeing it as a force, but really it's not a choice between centralization and decentralization. The tide was inexorably moving toward centralized states and those that weren't centralizing were typically those without the stability or strength to do so.
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How do you ask a Man to be the Last Man to Die for a President's Political Image?
With few exceptions, it can be argued that every war is politically or economically motivated. Politicians will say its about national security but often there's a larger political or economic motive behind wars...
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From Where Did Political Correctness Arise?
PC is the biggest threat to free thought especially on college campuses. PC forces people to conform to one ideology of some institution and to not being PC that person will be punished. Anyway you slice it, PC is the eventual death to individuality and ideas.
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