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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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H. L. Mencken

(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic.

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    todo el objetivo de la política práctica es mantener a la población alarmada (y, por tanto, clamorosa para que la lleve a un lugar seguro) amenazándola con una serie interminable de duendes, todos ellos imaginarios.

    실용적인 정치의 전체 목표는 끝없는 일련의 홉보 블린으로 그들을 위협함으로써 대중을 놀라게하고 (따라서 안전에 이르게하는 끔찍한) 유지하는 것이다.

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