[Gnu-arch-users] [OT] facism gaining ground in US

[Tom Lord]

Incidentally, one reason to place a losing idea like granting homeland
the security the authority to suspend elections on the table is _not_ 
because you expect to win that fight.

Rather, you just want a debate.   The debate goes like this:


   Pigs: Give H.S. the right to suspend elections under condition X.

   Effete Opposition:  What?  Are you crazy?  No way!

   Pigs: Look, it's a slippery slope.  Surely you agree that
         in the more extreme situation, X++, elections can't go
         forward, right?

   Effete Opposition: Er... well, sure, I guess ... but X++ is
         totally unrealistic!

   Pigs: Perhaps so.  But where would you draw the line?  If not X, 
         then where exactly.

   Effete Opposition: Aw geeze.   Can't we get back to universal
         health care?

   Pigs [to the crowd]: They're not even willing to plan for X++!

   E.O.: Oh come off it already.  Look, X is wrong.  I'd probably 
         say X' or something.

   Pigs: So, you think it's ok to suspend democracy under condition
         X'?  That's what you just said, right?

   E.O.: Yeah, yeah, yeah... are you done with the X proposal yet?
         Let's get back to health care....

   Pigs: Sure.


The pigs now have a goal and that goal is called X'.

-t