Like so many in power before him, President Colestein is an expert at tapping into this country’s shared anxiety, at using it to fuel mass delusion. That’s why the term limit was scrapped after President Colestein’s second, why he was voted back in for a fourth. Do you want to pay for other people to think about what they’ve done? In nicer prisons than our apartments and condos and houses, he’d said, not really asking—no, he already knew the answer, knew the economic crisis that plagued the country, knew that the masses needed a new scapegoat. He’d planted the seed of resentment, watered it
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