"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
Big Business/Big Gov't
from C4SS." The whole 20th century industrial model of gigantic, capital-intensive mass-production industry serving continental and global markets, and relying on things like planned obsolescence and the military-industrial complex to keep the plants running at full capacity, is largely a product of a series of state interventions that started with the railroad land grants in the Gilded Age. "
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