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  1. 09-29-2012 #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Moore View Post
    More accurately they are labeled as useful.
    Politics require that those we consider useful must be labeled as noble.
    “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”

    H.L. Mencken
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dayuhan View Post
    Politics require that those we consider useful must be labeled as noble.
    Only when we openly admit to supporting them.
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