[SWAMPSNIPER]

"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

[amihow]

Tree ring evidence going back as much as three thousand years and before the industral revolution shows similar changes.

[VRW Conspirator]

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.

/echo