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Bmoboy

(266 posts) Wed Oct 28, 2020, 08:11 PM Oct 2020

Purpose of politics

"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 (my Baltimore homeboy)

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Purpose of politics (Original Post) Bmoboy Oct 2020 OP

I believe that is more the purpose of our current Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #1

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

1. I believe that is more the purpose of our current

Reply to Bmoboy (Original post)

Wed Oct 28, 2020, 08:13 PM

Oct 2020

Infotainment media filling airtime between ads for drugs we never knew we needed.

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