24. A certain group solidarity is to be expected; democracy means the politics of pressure. But there’s a class distinction to be made. For those whose pressure is backed up by substantial and enduring economic power – in industry and agriculture, or the medical profession, to take the most powerful – that pressure is predictably effective, more often than not. For those whose power is determined by their numbers and their ability to organize themselves the pressure is less substantial and less enduring, and predictably less effective. Divided for them is conquered.