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The other weird thing politicians do is add the word "great" to everything - great state, great company, great nation, great this, great that... to the point th

• umvi 7y ago
  Lots of politicians/governments do this as some form of self-congratulatory propaganda, maybe? Notice how any country with the words "democratic" or "republic" in the name are actually dictatorships? And it's an extra tyrannical dictatorship if it has both.
• bitwize 7y ago
  Government has asserted its own greatness since antiquity; consider how we address kings as "Your Majesty". Sometimes, the claim that the local government is great was encoded into law as required to be acknowledged as fact. In monarchies of the past (and sometimes of the present) denying the King's majesty was a serious crime called lese majesty.