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was constantly assigned to cases that were far removed from Peterson.
    Anyway, back to Peterson. The man can deliver a speech. That’s his one skill. Even before his eleven–month campaign, Peterson was known for his speaking abilities. Except that in those days, he rarely got the opportunity to deliver a speech.
    Peterson is known for telling a crowd what they want to hear and for using the rhetoric of the speech he delivers to them to manipulate them while appearing to maintain deep, immutable convictions of his own. I am concerned that Peterson possesses only one deep and unchangeable conviction: to grab power for himself.
    Whatever his motives, Peterson is an opportunist who knows how to seize the moment. He can convince a crowd that they need to act in unison to save their grandmothers, or he can convince the same crowd that they need to turn against their grandmothers to save the U.S. for God. Tonight’s crowd is being told that they must save the U.S. for God. So far there has been no mention of their grandmothers.
    Peterson’s speeches are often in conflict with one another. To one group he might rail about the evils of socialism; to the next he might speak of the necessity for the government to provide for the basic needs of its people. Though Peterson seems to speak in absolutes, he always leaves himself an out. His speaking skills are such that he is able to appear to make an irrefutable case during a particular speech, yet he could later claim to have meant something that was the opposite from what had appeared to be clear during the speech.
    Tonight’s speech is shaping up to be a masterpiece of Peterson–speak. Peterson’s voice and physical gestures are becoming more intense as he approaches the end of his speech. It’s difficult to decide if his words are toxic, harmless, or somewhere in between.
    “…and so, in closing, I leave you with these final thoughts.
    “Perilous times are here, and America is in serious trouble. Not due solely to her recent economic and political catastrophes or her obvious moral decadence. And not even due exclusively to the fact that senseless, violent crime is completely out of control, and that her streets are owned by punks and thugs—monsters who roam wildly, seeking whom they may destroy. They were taught from an early age that they came from primates, and today they are acting the parts. No, as bad as these problems are, they are only symptoms. The root causes of these immense and pervasive symptoms, and more, are even worse; they’re far worse.
    “America is in distress because for decades, nearly a century, her citizens have been invading her treasury. And she is in trouble because her businesses are run by her government. Her Christianity has been arrogated and hopelessly compromised by doctrinal imbeciles who occupy the see of theological elitism. They’re usurpers, all of them. May they be forever damned for their apostasy!
    “Sound economic policy has been defined by those in government and by liberal university professors to be nothing more than the reckless distribution of money, food, medicine and any other commodity. They have decided for us that ‘economic policy study and analysis’ can only determine that money must be printed and then distributed to the citizens. Their agenda is socialist. The success of their reasoning and even their level of intelligence are measured by the number of agenda items accomplished rather than by logic, intellectual honesty or the lessons of history.
    “America is in trouble because she has become a socialist state. She is guilty of the crime of socialist oppression. A government that gives to its citizens will take more than it will give. For every dollar distributed to citizens, one freedom is taken. For every bureaucratic social program America enacted to help her citizens, she created one or more laws that restricted her people’s freedom. In her drive to be disparate, unique among history’s capitalist