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Boiling the frog
Glen: First, a small but fairly important editing correction. You wrote: "they have endorsed and legalized this behavior, investigated, outlawed or punished it." Obviously, you meant ". . . RATHER THAN investigated, outlawed, etc."
You've articulated something that has worried me at least since the revelations from Abu Ghraib; when a scandal like that first comes to light, we are shocked, but then learn to accept it. We all know how you can boil a frog to death without causing him to save himself by jumping out of the water -- just increase the temperature gradually. I'm hoping that American democracy isn't yet a dead frog.