Why the Big Money goes into the Big Lie

[Octafish]

7. Wish more knew that's what the words are for...

When the good leaders get the ziggy -- via bullet, random accident, stuffed ballot box or Mother Nature calling back the loan -- We the People need to know what's going on. That requires a free press, good schools and a sound collective memory.

Unfortunately, as Orwell described through his concept of Newspeak, when the words aren't around, neither are the ideas. And without good ideas, all the People will have to work with are those ideas conceived by their rulers. Cough, trickle down. Cough, tax breaks. Cough, commie. Cough, WMDs.

As you, my Friend, know: Those ideas only benefit the same few rulers at the expense of the community as a whole. It would be obvious to more people, they just don't have a clue as no one is around to talk about it and they don't have, uh, the experiences needed to realize what is being done to them.