"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
Cold War
"To indicate that the great powers did not fully demobilize after World War II ended, the term “Cold War” was coined, indicating a state of hostility between the United States and Soviet Union that included most everything but the shooting. Part of explanation for this extraordinary state of affairs is that U.S. entry into World War II and the policies pursued during and after the conflict eliminated the historical checks on the expansion of Russia and, later, China, namely, Germany and Japan. U.S. policymakers thus saw a “need” to provide those checks themselves. That necessity created the rationale for significant growth in the power of the federal government with its attendant violations of civil liberty and property."
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