Monday, September 5, 2016

Why Bother? Our Media/Political Establishment Have Already Succeeded

9/5/16 Washington Post:
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions, intelligence and congressional officials said.
Many years ago, I had a neighbor who had stopped voting.  Why?  "I have voted for two men who promised to reduce the scale and power of the federal government [by which I think he meant Carter and Reagan] and nothing changed."

2 comments:

  1. Take it easy, Clayton- your pledge to stop blogging for a few days didn't last very long, did it! :-)

    As for the Washington Post- well, it's the Washington Post; even further left than it used to be, since Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com) bought it to be a megaphone for his views.

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  2. Mostly, she wanted me to rest a bit which I have been doing.

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