The one word that lets politicians get away with having no plan

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Every democracy has a name problem that it does not know it has.

In nearly every country with an elected government, the party outside power is called the opposition. The word is so common that nobody questions it — yet look at what it actually implies. It defines a political party by what it is against, not by what it offers.

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