(Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)
The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev“Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”
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