“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.