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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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22.11.02

It's in the White House and Senate and judiciary. It's in the editorial rooms of newspapers. It's in the minds of propagandists and ideological assassins like Kersten who stay up nights thinking up fresh ways to spin, and impugn, and consolidate power through disinformation.


Ridiculous to imagine a true believer like Katherine Kersten ever challenging the righteousness of her own side. She's not a "free thinker," as she piously proclaims. She's an ideologue with an agenda, and no reluctance to deceive the unwitting public with red herrings and fuzzy math.


Yet the paper presents her as a "thinking person." True thinking surprises. Ideological propaganda may be clever to a fault, but it never ultimately surprises, because you know who they are out to get.


Do you think Katherine Kersten, with the power and security her party now feels, will ever object to following a president who deserted from the armed forces in time of war, and who pretends to be a patriot today?

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