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 | | The Heartland folk have seen their jobs taken, liberties curtailed, communities withered, states bankrupted, prices hiked, schools neglected, pensions gutted, air poisoned, water tainted, and their children killed and maimed in an unjust war for profit that's made the world more dangerous. |
 | | The qualities of that person -- who may, for all anyone knows, be a dolt or a scoundrel -- are not particularly relevant; what matters is his symbolic position at the apex of the system. |
 | | Nor does it greatly matter if the members of the inner circle have any serious regard for the person to whom they declare their allegiance; what matters is that their immediate dependents [clients] feel similarly bound to them, and through them, bound to the person at the pinnacle. |
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