http://www.larouchepac.com/node/9428

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"The trick is to treat each lemming individually, giving a different explanation of why each one goes over the cliff. This lemming was too free with her money, that lemming saw investment opportunities at the bottom of the cliff, that sort of thing. Make it all individual actions, to hide the way the whole herd is being driven.

"Take the stock market, for example. We have a list of stock responses, if you'll pardon the pun, to big market drops. Profit-taking, the market needed to rest, inanities like that. Usually followed up with some nonsense about how some expected it to be worse, so we actually did pretty well. The old 'lipstick on the pig' trick. Works like a charm.

"Even better, when something goes wrong, we tell the little people it was all their fault. We blamed the derivatives blowout on a few homebuyers! And got away with it!"

"You were pretty good at that," I said, flattering her to keep her talking.

"One of the best," she cooed. "I could sweet talk people into believing a 500-point drop in the Dow was good for their investments. I fed them that crap day after day, and they kept coming back for more. They loved me. Then some network jerk decided that I wasn't hot enough anymore, and replaced me with some blow-dried bimbo. But she can't sell it like I could, and the lemmings are getting nervous. Some of them are beginning to suspect that jumping off the cliff might not be the smart move. Your guy isn't helping any, with all that talk of breakdown and a dead system, and all that rebuilding with a commitment to the General Welfare crap. He keeps telling them they're headed for the abattoir, and they're starting to listen. He's just ruining the harvest!''