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December 15, 2025

If you want to know the depth and meanness of Human Nature, you have got to be a prime minister running a general election.

Sir John A. MacDonald (1815–1891), Canadian Conservative politician and first prime minister of Canada, in Des MacHale, Wit (1997)

Do you have any clue to what he is referring? Do you believe his point applies to elections in other countries? What meanness, if any, have you observed?

It’s not just at election time!

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