[Grampa Dave]

"Are politicians and planning bureaucrats really smart enough to set up a system like this, or was this just a misattribution of random events and human nature suffering from the creative scrutiny of some paranoid author? Every lawyer and planner interviewed during the research for this book who was asked that question, stated flatly that the politicians aren’t that smart and are ideologically opposed to such things. The subject of one interview how-ever, was (unknown to me at the time) one of the very people who had made oodles of money in the land conversion business. His comment was that there are people who are that smart, and that certain authors should be “careful.” "

That response is why I cringe when those on our side label the masterminds behind the dark side as dumb. They are that smart and as dangerous as you were warned.

[Carry_Okie]

I often despair of teaching conservative "leaders" how it really works. They think they know what's going on, but don't have a clue.

[SierraWasp]

"I cringe when those on our side label the masterminds behind the dark side as dumb."

How absolutely right you are, oh Great Grampa!!!

[hedgetrimmer]

That response is why I cringe when those on our side label the masterminds behind the dark side as dumb

In posession of what can only be called an evil genius, the dark side has patiently set up the demise of a constitutional republic, without firing a weapon.