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If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, incessant distractions are the way that politicians take away our freedoms, in order to enhance their own power and longevity in office. Dire alarms and heady crusades are among the many distractions of our attention from the ever increasing ways that government finds to take away more of our money and more of our freedom.
Magicians have long known that distracting an audience is the key to creating the illusion of magic. It is also the key to political magic.
Alarms ranging from "overpopulation" to "global warming" and crusades...
Playing Freedom Cheap
This comes from both parties and a true journalist would make a killing on the ratings if they did an expose on "Why we hate the other side" Thank God Dr Sowell has the guts and brains to put together a wonderful article like this.