What your heart tells ya, doesn’t that justify the means?

“What is striking about this is the willingness to lie — and not just to lie, but to lie so brazenly. On the scale of political untruths, this isn’t just a bit of spin — it’s the full Trump.

A little white lie, neh?

“With both sides snatching at any passing straw, the ends have come to justify the means.

People thinking all the diffy in the world could end with them? What ends are they hinting at, but the end of humankind? The anglosaxon version of Die Endlösung?

“The upshot is that, rather than trying to educate the confused, undecided voters in the middle, both campaigns are — as Cameron’s former consigliere Steve Hilton wrote on Saturday in the Times — treating them like “simpletons.

That’s a funny “side effect” but the thing here is:

Let’s say there’s a rabbit-duck situation, and U believe the rabbit to be clearer than the duck. That it is paramount to see the rabbit first and foremost. U are convinced it is the right thing to do. Why would U pull your punch?

Source: Robert Colville – http://www.politico.eu/article/chris-grayling-dastardly-plot-is-the-full-donald-trump-brexit-eu-referendum-migrants-housing-crisis/ 22 mei 16