The only way to get anything from government is to organize a party or pressure group. But how can we get anything out of an empty vessel? Does not everything drawn from government have to come from the people, and is not therefore any organized effort to draw anything from the government a conspiracy against others in the constituency?

Is democracy a conception of equal rights and equal service under government, or is it a game whereby those who gang up get special privileges at the expense of the unorganized? Now I realize that the first definition is the ideal, and the second is the practice, and that the idealists invariably lose out to those who play practical politics. Therefore the tendency of government is to degrade itself and, by evolutionary processes, ultimately to destroy itself, as a greater and greater element in the constituency reaches the conclusion that it must either rob others through the agency of government or be itself robbed through that agency.