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Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.

— Randal Marlin Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002)

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