Losing power means the country can never improve again.

Evidence

Realistically speaking I don’t think that we will ever be in power again, so the country will never come right again … um, the country will only go backwards, crime will only increase … um, everything will only go backwards … um, yes, so there is nothing … . That you can make a living here, I won’t argue with that, but I am not optimistic that things can go well again. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 163

Categorization

• XREF: Confirms the reader’s hypothesis about the circuit persisting decoupled from power — hopelessness fused to national decline, not self-reflection. — connects to: Struggles for political progress are never definitively won. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 536; Institutions once deemed inevitable became unthinkable through political struggle — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 57; Power is always negotiated, suspended and resisted rather than absolute. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1667

Broader Connections

• Power is always negotiated, suspended and resisted rather than absolute. #contradicts (0.90) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1667
• Struggles for political progress are never definitively won. #contradicts (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 536
• Institutions once deemed inevitable became unthinkable through political struggle #contradicts (0.80) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 57