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Originally Posted by Nebe
Follow your heart Duke
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Following your heart may be great in creating or appreciating art. but doing so in politics will usually lead to a broken heart. Politics is an unusual beast.
The "art" of politics is persuasion rather than creation of beauty. On the contrary, it usually creates ugliness and dissatisfaction. The "science" of politics is the study of political history to satisfy intellectual curiosity, or to better understand what and how politics has worked. presumably, to produce politicians who have some idea about what they are doing.
Human nature, in all of its glorious imperfection, will tend in the end to drift, out of necessity or lust for power, from the honest scientific inquiry into demagogic persuasion. Into the "art" of politics. And, as in the other arts, what is persuaded is the heart.
The tyrant first persuades your "heart," your emotions. Without some basis in the historical record, and some solid universal principles, the voter is persuaded to be an emotional slave.