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by Gigi

I just read the description in the dictionary of Machiavellianism. It is as follows:

(1) seizure, maintenance and extension of absolute power by the nicely graduated use of guile, fraud, force and frightfulness respectively;

(2) reliance on expedience and reasons of state as justifying any departures from morality needed to hold power; control then being maintained by the ruler of all avenues of communication, thus facilitating the deliberate molding of public opinion;

(3) use of common enemy as political cement in holding together allies needed in acquiring power, and the ruthless liquidation of these allies once power has been acquired;

(4) the employment for surveillance and terrorist activities of subordinates who can be disowned and liquidated by the ruler, who thus escapes the blame for their atrocities.

All of this meets the criteria for Karl Rove's handbook perfectly. It is what is being implemented in this "Machiavellian Mayberry" White House. We should all be very frightened.

Gigi

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