"In telling of Watergate, textbooks blame Richard Nixon, as they should. But they go no deeper. Faced with this undeniable instance of governmental wrongdoing, they manage to retain their uniformly rosy view of government...As Richard Rubenstein has pointed out, 'the problem will not go away with the departure of Richard Nixon,' because it is structural, stemming from the vastly increased power of the federal executive bureaucracy...Since the structural problem in the government has not gone away, it is likely that students will again, in their adult lives, face an out-of-control federal executive pursuing criminal foreign and domestic policies" (Lies My Teacher Told Me, 229).
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truer words have never been spoken. why is it that we can let fear justify such abuse of the very principles we allegedly hold dear?
damn the man.
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