>> Political power is based on emotions.

> Another remarkable novel on that subject:  _The Ninth Wave_ by
> Eugene Burdick (Houghton Mifflin, 1956), set in California ca. 1936:

>     Mike took a piece of paper off his desk and slowly wrote a
>   single sentence on it: "Freesmith's Unnumbered Principle: People
>   appear to love the man who humbles them."  He looked at it for
>   amoment and then shoved it into the desk drawer; along with the
>   other abandoned pieces of paper that contained similar sentences.

> It was his first book, a young man's book about young men.  The
> semicolon should be a comma, and "contained" should be "bore".

>   "...The two principles are the only things that make sense out of
>   all the lousy lectures in economics and politics and philosophy
>   and history.  The first principle is that everyone is scared....
>   The second principle is that everyone hates...."