[M]embers of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth. - Ilana Mercer

I'm strictly reality oriented. I don't indulge in make-believe. I don't wish to be where I'm not.

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

Complaints about the damage done to our "democracy" by outsiders are worse than silly. Such damage pales compared to what we Americans have done to a compact rooted in the consent of the governed and the drastically limited and delimited powers of those who govern.