# 30 May 2005, 09:35AM: Much Of The Essay I Couldn't Excerpt For Reasons Of Profanity:
The Poor Man encapsulates modern US political thought (the second half of the essay).
If people say they are going to do something, and then they do it, and then they say they're going to do something else, and they do that, too, and on and on, you should assume they're going to do what they say they're going to do. Even if they aren't looking at you when they say it.