I'm reading A Deepness In The Sky by Vernor Vinge. On page 270 we are visiting a radio broadcast studio on the spider's home planet for the purpose of watching a live discussion, and this paragraph jumps out at me:
They all knew where that was, but they followed obediently along, listening to her unending gush. None of them really knew what Madame Subtrime thought of them. Jirlib claimed that she was no fool, that under all the words lurked a cold counter of cash. "She know's to the tenth-penny how much she can earn for the old cobbers by outraging the public." Maybe, but Viki liked her even so, and even forgave her shrill and foolish talk. Too many people were so stuck in their beliefs that nothing would bend them.
Golly gee, it seems like the spider's have been invaded by the virus of the two party system.
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