Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.
Ilana MercerIn a free society, the โvision thingโ is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a โvisionaryโ bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.
Ilana MercerIncarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.
Ilana MercerThe Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce โ thumping majorities prevail in a democracy โ cannot abide by a reality in which greater wealth affords greater "access."
Ilana Mercer