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In reply to the discussion: Obama taps "cognitive infiltrator" Cass Sunstein for Committee to create "trust" in NSA [View all]nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)they all go thru a phase where they pine for "philosopher kings" until it's pointed out how reliance on these paternalistic critters always leads to bad things...and it horribly undemocratic.
gotta say, i'm damn sick and tired of this elitism and contempt toward average American voters. so he thinks it's okay to lie to us because he knows better than us what's good for us.
nothing could be more detrimental to "the republic." to quote Ike Reilly:
Take the promise keepers, yeah, those righteous creeps
The legend seekers of the ivy league
Let's put 'em on a ship
Take the vulgar boatmen and the drunken showmen
And the Willy Lomans rock-and-roll
And put 'em on a ship
I'll give you a kiss on your big fat lips
Lets have a drink before we ship
We're getting loaded
We're getting loaded
We're getting loaded
We're getting loaded
Yeah
...
And when it sails away, you'll hear people say
'You'll never get no play from the cheap seats.
Boys, we're getting loaded'