The monster under your bed

In reference to my post from yesterday, I offer you this gem of a quotation:

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H.L. Menken

Update: Many thanks to Paul who by complete coincidence added the correct version of this quotation to a comment at the same time as I added this blog entry.

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