THE LEFT WING SEDUCTIVE POWER*
The Left-Handed Power
The right wing buys the voter by giving it landfill, basket or brick, but the left with its seductive and articulate speech is more subtle, more powerful, for it sells hope for a better life.
Like no one else, it can handle the purest human instincts. It has captured the collective popular imagination, even that of the thirsty intellectuality of social justice, taken by the desire for a more just and egalitarian society that only the left in its mind can instill in individuals; it buys the body and soul of the militant by deeply touching his heart by promising him something he believes to be his right, by engaging in the sweeping “popular struggles”; surely the greatest of dangerous illusions.
Paulo Rebelo