Not a bit. It was the people who elected the representatives of whom they demanded unconstitutional services who enabled this mess.
How much of that "we did this to ourselves" was in actually foisted upon us by something akin to the Dephi Technique?
Every bit of what was foisted was foisted on me too.
And who amongst us knows what countermeasures work against such subterfuge and can teach it? I don't know of anyone; do you?
Thanks a bunch.
And maybe I ought to have written "could have taught it," because I'm pretty sure we are beyond the point of solving any of our problems pedagogically.
I just had a minor bureaucrat visit our place a couple of days ago. He got it, including the racketeering aspects of this mess. People know they're getting screwed. Just that "Energy Racketeering" article has received over 1,100 loads this month. My articles have almost 5,000 readers a month. My new book, about which I haven't even posted notice, has had 250 chapter readers this month. There are a couple thousand who read Shemitta pages.
All told, it's about 12,000 articles and chapters a month, and as you know, NONE of these people would be lightweights. My goal is to build the material with which to teach leaders. I can't bring them to water, but there is a lot there to drink, and soon there will be much more.
I was NOT deriding your tireless work, which is far in excess to my own. I was bemoaning knowing of a tactical training program where more people could do the kind of things needed to derail the Progs tactic in advancing their agenda. Being filled with facts and knowledge and eloquence clearly is not enough.
And I surely hope you continue to make gains. The truth does matter.
The thing is, those newly informed minor bureaucrats have to be able to keep their jobs. They WILL run into apparatchiks who will softly say things like "you're smart enough to know which side is the right one."
And should they fail to respond "well" to such suggestions, they will hear something like "I thought you were smart" at their exit interview.
The CAGW climate scam is more reliant on their Soviet-Style media (SSM) than on the actual number of climate scientist who are listed in the "consensus." But that doesn't mean that climate scientists can be assured they'll get their next research grant if they don't bow in the right direction when called on to do so. Same with Forestry Service and Interior bureaucrats. It's one thing for them to have their eyes opened by you, entirely another to buck the nefarious system that seeks to grows the department they work in (with them or without them).
We live in much nastier times.