CSotD: Trickle-down tax theory hits street level
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Non Sequitur on the disconnect between what people say they want and what they want.
A lot of politics involves telling people what they want to hear, or telling them things in a way that makes them think that's what they wanted.
For the Fidel Castros, Moammar Ghadafis and Mahmoud Amahdinijads, that means keeping them from knowing what other people in the world are getting, which is becoming increasingly difficult to pull off in an interconnected world.
In a democracy, it means keeping them from finding out that prosperity is not just around the corner and that things are more complex after November than they were in October.
The real trick, in any form of government, is making people either think that they have what they wanted, or that it's someone else's fault that they do not.
Oldest trick in the book. But remember that "the book" you're allowed to reference is "1984," not that one by "He Who Must Not Be Named," aka the Austrian paperhanger.
"Political correctness" no longer being the exclusive domain of liberals.
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