A standard, excellent piece of advice: “If you want to understand who someone is, don’t pay attention to what they say. Pay attention to what they do.” The same can be said of laws and political institutions (in this essay collectively referred to as “the government”), although you have to change the formulation a little bit: “If you want to know why the government operates the way it does, don’t pay attention to what it is called, what it says things are
To Understand Government, Note Action Over Words
To Understand Government, Note Action Over…
To Understand Government, Note Action Over Words
A standard, excellent piece of advice: “If you want to understand who someone is, don’t pay attention to what they say. Pay attention to what they do.” The same can be said of laws and political institutions (in this essay collectively referred to as “the government”), although you have to change the formulation a little bit: “If you want to know why the government operates the way it does, don’t pay attention to what it is called, what it says things are