Pt 2 in Frank Balsinger's excellent series. A snip: "There are those we think of here in this country as the people, as in, “we the people.” We are a diverse lot, driven by diverse passions, yet presumably with one all-encompassing line of demarcation…our nationality. This unruly, rowdy, passionate mass is the “us” I mean. Then there exists a tiny, tiny subset of the people, a cynical, manipulative, crafty minority gifted with playing us one against the other to their own ends. We find this tiny minority jibber-jabbering incessantly behind news desks as though they deliver news. We find them in the highest offices of the land, from the city council all the way up to the Oval Office. We find them behind pulpits and lecterns. We find them wrapped in a tapestry of customs and conceits, Bibles and blandishments, legalese and legerdemain. They put on every conceivable air of respectability in order to better peddle their ill-begotten wares, which, when stripped of their whitewash, are revealed to be only inducements for us to place trust where none is earned. By the time we finish unwrapping their samples of snake oil, we find nothing left but the bitter taste of empty promise. And for that empty promise, we set upon each other, instead of on them, like starving monkeys fighting for the last banana."
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