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  • The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

    "Rule By Thieves: One Week in the American Kleptocracy" by John W. Whitehead, www.counterpunch.org. March 17, 2017.