Why am I insisting on pointing out the deficit of integrity? Not because I particularly disagree that conservatives need to appeal to voters (duh!) or even because if we were to accept, as the GOP has done for 50 years at least, that they need to “win by 3%” or the Rats can steal it. The thing about this that startles me is that this means we aren’t on The Road to Serfdom anymore. We have arrived.
I had a patient years ago who grew up and lived in Italy in the30’s and 40’s. I was reading Herdotus at the time and remarked that maybe the old Persian generals were right. Tyrant is the best way to rule. “after all, the trains ran on time”. He laughed at me. “No they didn’t”, he said. “It was just pretty unhealthy to point that out”!
I read you. In a different way of expression I have agreed. We have arrived as in “welcome to the machine” In a forming machine. Bending is the gentle part. Its the punchouts and discarded. Trashed, basically because they don’t fit the form. It’s the process we’ve been in for awhile and there is recycle of this material as in redistribution.