Paul KrugmanPolitics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
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Politics can be a brutal and ruthless world, where people will do anything to gain the upper hand. Those who have power will fight for it, while those who have been denied power will fight to gain it. In other words, people will do whatever they have to in order to get what they want. In this life, we all have our own agendas.
Some of us want power for good while others simply want power for the sake of power. These are two different ideas but most people tend to think that politics is about finding the truth when in many cases it is about finding the one who has the most power.
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