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I am "fairly positive" that had Machiavelli lived today, the various Guardians would label him a conspiracy theorist. After all, we all know that politicians can be "flawed people", but the democratic institutions are working for the people and we all head towards a bright feature where everything is a green democracy, there are no dictators, no communists, and the military is there only for protecting us from asteroids..