We can use this opportunity to point out that the government can do all these things and more at a moment’s notice. They tried to convince us that they simply couldn’t. They lied.

Yeah, the centrist cry of “Everything is impossible” looks awfully vieillot now, does it not? Of course anyone with half a brain knew that their mantra of mediocrity was spurious from the start — but all too many people lacking that 50% of gray matter bought the con and then derided anyone who pointed out that it was in fact all flimflam.