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Fierce loyalty partisanship:it is inseparable
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from the character of regime politics.
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These passionate attachments are not merely something that take place,
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you might say, between different regimes,
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but even within them,as different parties
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and groups with loyalties and attachments contend for power,
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for honor, and for interest.
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Henry Adams once cynically reflected
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that politics is simply the "organization of hatreds,"
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and there is more than a grain of truth to this,
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right, although he did not say that it was also an attempt
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to channel and redirect those hatreds and animosities