"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
Proletarian Blues
""But [Barbara] Ehrenreich's misguided diagnoses and prescriptions occupy at most a tenth of [her] book. The bulk of the book is devoted to a description of the problems, and there's nothing sneerworthy about that. And libertarians will win few supporters so long as they continue to give the impression of regarding the problems Ehrenreich describes as unimportant or non-existent. If you?re desperately ill, and Physician A offers a snake-oil remedy while Physician B merely snaps, 'stop whining!? and offers nothing, Physician A will win every time." Whoa! A prominent libertarian intellectual shows some compassion for the working class? Cool."
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