Ha, nice one. I hadn't thought of that specific clip, but I've been thinking for a while that progressive politics really needs a Varys to pit against the Right's Littlefinger characters in the shape of Bannon, Cummings, Banks etc.
(That's probably giving them a lot more credit than they're really due, but you know what I mean, right?)
I suppose what I meant was to be machievellean and have genuine left-wing principles.
Campbell, e.g., helped engineer the Iraq war. By lying. Surely that's not left-wing?
Being machievellean must be more of a right-wing thing because it means being extremely ruthless to other people, suggesting not the most empathetic of characters.
Depends how you would define Machiavellian. Is it to be completely amoral in pursuit of political gain, or is it to grant their political mission higher moral priority than the acts it commands?
There's definitely a big "the ends justifies the means" belief to much of modern radical leftist circles. Punching nazis, online doxxing tactics etc.
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