Though as a practical matter, in the end, more often than not, often politics tends to play out that way, at ANY political level, starting out with elections like voting for the local Dog Catcher, and is driven by lies, distortions and whatever else is thought to work to achieve electoral victory by any means whatsoever, and that includes outright bribery (sweetly called "campaign contrbutions") and character assassination and other chicanery, I think this is a bit ingenuous to say that, and while it may be tongue in cheek and slightly glib, to a great extent it is correct.

I believe some famous sports coach summed things up thusly: "Winning isn't EVERYTHING, but losing isn't ANYTHING."

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