Note well, that this was originally penned in 1910:
And now, as this book is drawing to a close, I will whisper in the reader’s ear a horrible suspicion that has sometimes haunted me: the suspicion that Hudge [the Progressive] and Gudge [the Conservative] are secretly in partnership. That the quarrel they keep up in public is very much of a put-up job, and that the way in which they perpetually play into each other’s hands is not an everlasting coincidence.
I do not know whether the partnership of Hudge and Gudge is conscious or unconscious. I only know that between them they still keep the common man homeless.
G.K. Chesterton wrote this over a century ago. Politics as a hope for what ails humanity is death to soul of men and idolatry to the Christian believer.
Just my .02, if you were wondering what I think about all of this.
hat tip: Will S.
We think alike.
https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/tweedledum-and-tweedledee/
🙂
(I don’t know why the Twitter Chesterton quote site I quoted didn’t cite Hudge and Gudge and explain like your source did, but instead substituted what they represent as archetypes. Oh well.)
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I actually owe you a hat tip. Will fix. I saw it at your place, then went and read for greater context.
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“Politics as a hope for what ails humanity is death to soul of men and idolatry to the Christian believer.”
Indeed; “Put not your trust in princes”, as Scripture commands us…
(As I’ve tried to remind myself and others:
https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/put-not-your-trust-in-princes/)
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Ah! Thanks for doing so; I ought to read your link and refresh my memory of the passage in context. 🙂
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Yes! What Will said. THIS. We get so caught up in “this person is going to fix it” that we forget that the only One who is gonna fix it is Jesus.
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Thanks Hearthie!
It can be a challenge to keep that in mind…
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