Like Senator Turtle. He of the frozen foot, who became a statue for minutes on end, then thawed out to say anything and then take it back because he could. He prepared the ground, planted the poison and harvested the crop, stacked the courts the way you stack the deck so you always win because there are no other options left.

I wrote a little squib I was going to post separately on its own, but I include it here because it fits.

The Process of Intellectual Subjugation

Get ‘em early
and you can brainwash anybody.

Speaking of agriculture, we know the crop.

So what can we do?

Be better farmers.