Words On Prejudices, Citizens, Imbeciles, and Elites.

Robert Heinlein. Abhijit Naskar. Bertolt Brecht. Robert Reich.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. Robert A. Heinlein.

If a criminal becomes a politician, it’s the fault of the citizens, not the system, and if a system keeps failing to oust the criminals from politics, that too is the fault of the citizens. Abhijit Naskar.

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies. Bertolt Brecht.

The most important political competition over the next decades will not be between the right and left or between Republicans and Democrats. It will be between a majority of Americans who have been losing ground and an economic elite that refuses to recognize or respond to the majority’s growing distress. Robert B. Reich.