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Entry: Ron Paul's Patriotic Crimethink Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/ron_pauls_patriotic_crimethink#1497 Post contents: The reason it's possible for so many politicians to live/operate under a false pretext (lie) is that most people want to believe them. I don't know how we will ever convince the mainstream not to support/follow the politicians as a class. And show them, they can't just start with the assumption that everyone is just doing what they think is right, therefore the only sensible thing to do is to find the middle ground. Any compromise between good and evil is evil. Any compromise between a man and his murders is disastrous. One should never support anyone who is obviously not principled, or self aware. I am very glad to have read this article. Good Stuff. After WWI many authors such as Hemingway were successful in convincing Americans that the previous foreign excursions we had involved ourselves in had been blunders, or counterproductive to the country. The American people were all set not to get involved in WWII even as the Nazi's took over Europe. Pearl Harbor, and Roosevelt had convinced everyone that America had previously been an Isolationist country. They had taken our brief attempt to return to non-interventionism after WWI, put it in a vacuum. No realization that we had helped to create the circumstances under which the Nazi's could thrive. The war effort, along with the Treaty of Versailles, had crippled the German economy. We must be vigilant, even if we achieve a temporary return to sanity, we will still have these problems as long as there are men who desire power. Politics is not the art of blending the possible with the prudent. It is a game of deception, rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies - making it look like an effort to save humanity from itself. Sent at: 2008 07 05