Scare Us, then Lead Us to Safety

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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

— H. L. Mencken

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Posted by Nathan Rice on January 20, 2010
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Comment by Trent Eady on January 30, 2010 @ 3:59 pm

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