Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

by Anand Giridharadas

When your leader still wears the beret from his days in the rebel army, you should be afraid.

The sole way of thinking?

Trying-to-Solve-the-Problem-with-the-Tools-That-Caused-It issue.”

traditional politics is argumentative for a reason. It isn’t that politicians don’t know how to be nice, but rather that politics is rooted in the idea of a big, motley people taking their fate into their own hands. Politics is the inherently messy business of negotiating and reconciling incompatible interests and coming up with a decent plan, designed to be liked but difficult to love. It solves problems in a context in which everyone is invited to the table and everyone is equal and everyone has the right to complain about being unserved and unseen. Politics, in bringing together people of divergent interests, necessarily puts sacrifice on the table.