More Enamored Of Order Than Justice

One may posit, by what triumph of travesty it becomes possible for undeserving and dangerous individuals to berth themselves so centrally and prominently upon the stages of world politics. Though this is a comprehendible and often repeated condition peculiar to the hereditary scepter, it is an annoying anachronism of power in the elective republic. Unqualified and inferior rulers finding preference over more sanguine and suitable candidates certainly requires extensive subversive campaigns wherein the electorate is the dupe. Such goals are unreachable without elaborate strategies to manipulate circumstances to conditions of propitiousness. To pave the way forward without arousing the popular suspicions requires many years of subtle yet ruthless preparation, as even a desensitized and apathetic electorate would be wary of overt malevolence. First must the hearts and minds be won by deeds perceived to be beneficial and heroic. This indeed has the pattern and template been and found utile the acute manufactured crisis briskly resolved through expediency. Statesman as offer panacea for feigned zero hour circumstance labor in diligence to depose monarchies, abolish parliaments and suspend constitutions, the restoration of regularity recompensed with the laurel of unchallengeable authority. Such climacteric social transformations smooth the political contours at the cost of general liberties, by the brash and reactionary treatment of symptoms rather than causes. That the symptoms were the product of counterfeit causes is knowledge conveniently swept beneath collective amnesia, as men are often more enamored of order than of justice.