"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." Orwell
"“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" Robespierre
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Spin, Span, Spun
It's hard to imagine a time when honesty and intelligence will return as values to people on the right, so completely have they been expunged. The thoroughness of their extinction is breathtaking, and the shock of it is matched only by the ease with which it's been accomplished by the non-stop propagandists at Fox "news" and right-wing radio, as they've played steadily to the worst of human weaknesses.
WRT the issue at hand, here's a little more of the truth of it. As if.
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