Some people say it's foolish to worry about soulless creatures overtaking the earth and devouring our brains. I say they've already won.
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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
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Things White People Don't Like
Talkingpoints Memo has run an really interesting series of letters from voters who turned from the GOP because all the "racist dogwhistling" that went on was not only audible to the essential GOP cracker demographic, but to minorities as well.
Have a read.
It started with this observation:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/11/wham_bam_thank_you_mitt_1.php
Then this point was made:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/11/reaping_the_whirlwind_1.php
And then this conclusion:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/11/it_was_the_email_from.php
It's an interesting thread.
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