Reply #86: With all due respect, I don't think our patient plotting will bring

[Ron Green]

results. The masses don't want to think, they want to feel. And nothing feels stronger than the stuff spewing from the RW media: Scary foreign boogeyman, Dead photogentic pregnant woman, Waffling northeastern liberal elite, Bizarre has-been pop start pedophile....the list is literally inexhaustible.

Barnum was right, Mencken was right, and so was Plato - people are not capable of directly governing themselves; democracy means they must be represented by the "best of men." And what the RW have done over the past 40 years is to replace statesmanlike "best of men" with Machiavellian ones. Statesmanship won't ever come back, as long as there is TV.