One wonders, is it worse to be governed by knaves or to be governed by fools?
The politician who mistakes the popular will for the sectional interest is either a knave or a fool.
No one but a knave or a fool would claim to have the panacea with which to safeguard pension funds.
There is a cynicism in some quarters in this country amongst people who think that politicians are worse than fools—that they are knaves.
Nobody but a knave or a fool can doubt that.
If they realise the far-reaching effects of the nationalisation of the iron and steel industry and persist in it then they are political knaves.
Nevertheless, because the satisfaction of seeing knaves discomfited is psychologically reinforcing, this instrumental value is part of the explanation of why in fact he has it.
In fact, if all exhibit such solidarity, loyalty, patriotism, and so on, then they are not entirely the shower of fools, knaves, and charlatans that they seem.
