>>508432730 (OP)My history teacher said "the winner always writes the history in their favour" when we were looking at WW1 and 2, and left that comment at that. If I had known what he was implying at the time I might have learned a thing or two sooner, but I was still young and naive.
What carried over is that I now know that there is what people say and what people mean, politics is full of people moving side-ways, pinging the room with subtle tells to seek out like minds. There are no united fronts which means there is no consensus on policy. Think upon what that means within the context of a democratic society...