The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

Paul Krugman
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  1. Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

  2. Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

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