"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
The Streets of America Feel Different
Submitted by Eric Field on Wed, 2013-04-03 00:00
The word zeitgeist occurred to me while reading a March 22 headline in the New York Post: 'Military-Style Drones Will Patrol NYC.'
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