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Small Gods · 1992
“I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts,” said Brutha. “That way, everyone’s happy.”
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker describes democracy as a way of giving everyone someone to distrust. Turning shared suspicion into a reason for happiness creates the joke. Agreement is imagined as possible through a common complaint, rather than through confidence in the person chosen.
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