Friday, January 24, 2025

Define politics

Politics is the art of looking for trouble,
finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly,
and applying the wrong remedies.

Larry Boucher, Peculiar, Missouri
quoted in a November 2024 New York Times
story about a local battle with developers

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