>>It's morphed into a religion, and the pet of politicians eager to pander to an ignorant public while distributing the GW pork to their cronies.
I keep coming back to Mencken on this:
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, In Politics
I keep coming back to Mencken on this: 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, In Politics
And this...
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken