Professor_Stevens on Nostr: "...they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, ...

"...they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end."

https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-republicans-democrats-power-grab-democracy-f727f67e220a81cbbdf86540e67d7b93