Enough brayin
Even to “win ugly” is, in the end, to win beautiful.
A lot of the “ugly” is the upset of people over molehills when mountain problems loom.
Two people who are confident of the desmise are Matt Drudge and Roger Stone.
Both are aware of a bombshell being release tomorrow.
And “the media” didn’t get this way overnight. This sad state of affairs was arrived at by a kind of malign evolution. From telling the story (which has a minimal risk) to being a part of the story (fraught with moral perils) to making the story go from whole cloth (wicked).
Trump is making a yeoman’s effort to drive this trend back. But he won’t get anywhere unless it’s the power of the Lord moving him on, which would be an indicator that God knows and has planned for the country to be ready for it in some sense.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite. - Eisenhower’s Farewell AddressIOW, both the government and the research institution are special interests.The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires . .. The natural disposition is always to believe . . . The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.
. . . It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Polls are propaganda.
When they say “poll”, just substitute “Pravda”.
Bray on...