Ottawa

Understanding the Tory War Room

“Whereas the left wing tends to attract bleeding hearts, the right-wing tends to attract jerks. Of course there are all sorts of fancy intellectual reasons why one might want to shrink government, reduce taxes, and curtail entitlement programs. Bu a lot of people support these policies simply because they don’t care about anybody but themselves. They are, in other words, self-interested jerks.”

Joseph Heath, Policy Options

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