I will be conveyed to an Emergency Room of some kind, where I will be detained as long as I do not respond to questions, and then, when I do respond to questions, I will be sedated; so it will be an inversion of standard travel, the ambulance and ER: I'll make the journey first, then depart.
Because we__e been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It__ ultimately just about that complicated: it hurts. It denies you respect for yourself, for the liar, for the world. Especially if the lies are chronic, systemic, if hard experience seems to teach that everything you__e supposed to believe in__ really a game based on lies. Young Voters have been taught well and thoroughly. You may not personally remember Vietnam or Watergate, but it__ a good bet you remember __o new taxes_ and __ut of the loop_ and __o direct knowledge of any impropriety at this time_ and Did not inhale_ and __id not have sex with that woman_ and etc. etc. It__ depressing and painful to believe that the would-be __ublic servants_ you__e forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously with such a straight face that you just know they have to believe you__e an idiot. So who wouldn__ fall all over themselves for a top politician who actually seemed to talk to you like you were a person, an intelligent adult worthy of respect?
The Best American Essays 2007
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Because we__e been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It__ ultimately just about that complicated: it hurts. It denies you respect for yourself, for the liar, for the world. Especially if the lies are chronic, systemic, if hard experience seems to teach that everything you__e supposed to believe in__ really a game based on lies. Young Voters have been taught well and thoroughly. You may not personally remember Vietnam or Watergate, but it__ a good bet you remember __o new taxes_ and __ut of the loop_ and __o direct knowledge of any impropriety at this time_ and Did not inhale_ and __id not have sex with that woman_ and etc. etc. It__ depressing and painful to believe that the would-be __ublic servants_ you__e forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously with such a straight face that you just know they have to believe you__e an idiot. So who wouldn__ fall all over themselves for a top politician who actually seemed to talk to you like you were a person, an intelligent adult worthy of respect?
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