It hasn’t stopped, that sled of paradigm shift: it is still creeping forward. If we are not vigilant, the machine that has come into creation this past decade will tighten its own screws and proceed on the course to global governance quietly, while no one notices. It is not so much giving the people what they want, as making them believe they’re getting what they want.
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Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.