"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
'New Nationalism' and the Corporate Economy
"The magnification of the total, inescapable state, always advanced as a victory for “the common man,” never failed to further consolidate power and wealth in a well-connected elite. Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism,” so favorably invoked by President Obama’s speech, was rooted firmly in a jingoistic sense of American Exceptionalism that, among other things, treated empire as the country’s birthright."
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