Subject: : POLITICS - An Explanation
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> To: > A little boy goes to his
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> dad and asks, 'What is Politics?'
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> Dad says, 'Well son, let
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> me try to explain it this way:
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> I am the head of the
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> family, so call me The Prime Minister.
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> Your mother is the
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> administrator of the money, so we call her the Government.
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> We are here to take care
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> of your needs, so we will call you the People.
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> The nanny, we will
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> consider her the Working Class.
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> And your baby brother,
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> we will call him the Future.
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> Now think about that and
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> see if it makes sense.'
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> So the little boy goes
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> off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.
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> Later that night, he
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> hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him.
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> He finds that the baby
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> has severely soiled his nappy.
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> So the little boy goes
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> to his parent's room and finds his mother asleep.
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>
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> Not wanting to wake her,
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> he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the
> keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny..
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> He gives up and goes back to bed.
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> The next morning, the
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> little boy say's to his father, 'Dad, I think I understand the concept
> of politics now. '
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> The father says, 'Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think
> politics is all
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> about.'
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> The little boy replies, 'The Prime Minister is screwing the Working
> Class while the
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> Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and
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> the Future is in deep shit.'