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> Your average American didn't understand

These five words are, as far as I can tell, the poison in the pudding of American politics today.

1) There is no "average" American. Everyone is close to a median in some metrics, and everyone is at out-lier in others.

2) The fact that huge outcry over the NSA is not visible might just mean we're looking in the wrong places. I've traveled across the country by land twice in two years, stopping at hundreds of rural campfires and urban watering holes. My experience is that people are very upset with the state and want their rights back. And that, one way or another, they'll get 'em.

parent jMyles 9 years ago

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