I don’t know, I just don’t know. I guess it’s all just part of the mystery of life.
But maybe we do disappear them, and replace them with benignimized (see Stanislaw Lem, Futurological Congress), pre-programmed clones, designed to so thoroughly discredit themselves by spouting asinine, paranoid drivel, that nobody takes them seriously. The only problem is, that they then get appointed to positions of power, because the country has gone insane, as seen in the probability that Hagel will be Defense, and the fact that he was a Senator, as were Ron Paul and BHO. So we are the international conspiracy that couldn’t shoot straight.