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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: nothing but a device for cajoling from him the vote he refuses to
arbitrary authority. He will not vote for Coriolanus; but when an
experienced demagogue comes along and says, "Sir: _you_ are the
dictator: the voice of the people is the voice of God; and I am only
your very humble servant," he says at once, "All right: tell me what
to dictate," and is presently enslaved more effectually with his own
silly consent than Coriolanus would ever have enslaved him without
asking his leave. And the trick by which the demagogue defeats
Coriolanus is played on him in his turn by _his_ inferiors.
Everywhere we see the cunning succeeding in the world by seeking a
rich or powerful master and practising on his lust for subservience.
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