"American History is this..."

[AKDavy]

You build a bomb;
You use that bomb;
It creates an immediate market for more bombs;
And that is good for business."

My American History Professor
Modesto Junior College
Spring Semester 1980

It really turned out to be no more complicated than that.

[Newest Reality]

1. And that has been

accompanied by saying one thing when you actually mean the other. Important foot note.

[AKDavy]

2. I think Saul Alisky said that the secret was to...

Take a demand for priority access to limited resources and place it in a moral argument:

We are only taking what rightfully belongs to us.

We are only killing those who deserve to die.

Poor people are poor because they deserve no better.

The regular rules don't apply to us because we are doing God's work.