George P. Radanovich: “I think, too, what the American people need to know when they are confronted with what I call fearmongering like this…”

“I think, too, what the American people need to know when they are confronted with what I call fearmongering like this, all the F's that were on the report cards, and how you are against so many good things, reminds me of a scene in a jungle somewhere where a group of people, say 10 people, get stuck in a murky old swamp and they are up to their armpits in swamp water, and they are stuck in the mud and cannot get out. They have been in there so long, and by the way, the Great Society is the name of the swamp, and they are stuck in there and they cannot leave. They have been there so long that they cannot think that there is anything better than that swamp. So finally a couple of people out of those 10 get the inspiration. They see a hill, a shining hill, and want to begin to stir the efforts of those to begin to get themselves out of the swamp, and you have people full of fear, so used to being stuck in the swamp that they cannot imagine anything different and do not want to take what even might be a perceived risk to get out of the swamp and change to a better country, which I call what the Republicans are trying to do. That is a sad state of affairs when you have to defend the order that we are in this country right now, because many people feel, and many people believe that we indeed are stuck in a swamp.”