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You are thinking so much that you can’t see what’s right in front of you.
The age-old American conservative policy: think less! It's so obvious, moran! Those degree-having people don't have common sense!
And I'm being serious that reduction and "it's so simple" has been a mainstay of modern American rhetoric on mobilizing conservative policy, right down to Antonin Scalia's jurisprudence. It's obvious that escalating criminal punishments will lessen criminal behavior, it's obvious that drug testing welfare will reduce costs, it's obvious that private healthcare is cheaper than universal state-ran healthcare, it's obvious that lower taxes are always better, it's obvious that killing terrorists with our military might will reduce the spread of terrorist sentiment, etc. etc. etc. etc.
And then, when you find out none of that was honest and that you were getting played, you can say "hey, all of these politicians are just out for themselves and are not making good policy -- it's so obvious....now vote conservaitve."
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