The discourse of political parties is not a manual for improving the world. It is a product designed to win elections, and that means confrontation with other products. Every discourse starts from a basic identity and from the general appropriation of certain themes. Some appropriate the environment or social services, others the family or the nation. Sincerity is beside the point. The discourse does not exist outside the media theater where the product is offered to the voter. Opposing and distinguishing oneself from the enemy is essential. Against the minimal good sense one might grant any party, an alternative good sense can be set up, but if that alternative lacks sufficient differentiating force, it frequently collapses into folly. Thus the instances of good sense at the mythical origin of ideologies grow disfigured in a spiral of follies that, outside the circus of market democracy, make no sense at all. Those who take it seriously believe their seat in the stalls is the world, when in reality it is a true Platonic cave. There, the spiral sometimes reaches such an extreme that many cry out in alarm that the debate is becoming radicalized. But that is not what is happening; rather, it is the advance of folly which, like an unstoppable hurricane, destroys everything in its path.