From an episode of Peaky Blinders:
Politics is about deliberately making things better for some people by deliberately making them worse for others.
Has it ever been expressed more clearly than that?
Note that the people for whom it’s intended that things will get better (like unions, or banks, or government employees and contractors) are often different from the people for whom it is claimed that things will get better (like school children, or small business owners, or families, or the sick, or the poor).
