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It can be spun as our law vs them. Our law in their pocket creates another level of confusion and automatic us vs them nationalism when it's spun to the press and masses. At least that's the tendency I've noticed. It's their best legal bulwark given what's already happened.
Anyway, it was a slam dunk. Those who wanted it needed it to pass before a shift of control. Those who didn't necessarily want it couldn't cause a stink for fear they'd sabotage the shift with a distracting and noisy battle. Now it'll be buried as an old, possibly ill-advised pre-election issue while the new crowd try to move their agendas.
Time to go fishing or something. Gak.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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