“…it is probably enough to observe here that in the nature of things the exercise of personal government, the control of a huge bureaucracy, and the management of an enormous mass of subsidized voting-power, are as agreeable to one stripe of politician as they are another. Presumably they interest a Republican or Progressive as much as they do a Democrat, Communist, …Socialist, or whatever a politician may, for electioneering purposes, see fit to call himself. (…) It is now being further demonstrated by the desirable haste that the leaders of the official opposition are making towards what they call “reorganization” of their party. One may well be inattentive to their words; their actions, however, mean simply that the recent accretions of State power are here to stay, and that they are aware of it; and that, such being the case, they are preparing to dispose themselves most advantageously in a contest for their control and management. This is all that the “reorganization” of the Republican party means, and all it is meant to mean; and this is in itself quite enough to show that any expectation of an essential change of regime through a change of party-administration is illusory.”
– 1935 (No, not 2013)
-Albert Jay Nock
