Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 92 of Thomas Sowell’s 2023 book, Social Justice Fallacies:

In politics – whether electoral politics or ideological politics – the word “crisis” often means whatever situation someone wants to change. Far from automatically indicating some dire condition threatening the public, it often means simply a golden opportunity for surrogates to use the taxpayers’ money and the government’s power to advance the surrogates’ interests, whether these interests are political, ideological, or financial.