“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' … Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.”
"'Left' and 'Right' Bamboozling You on Benghazi" http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/ilana-mercer/item/left-and-right-bamboozling-you-on-benghazi, American Daily Herald, January 13, 2014. <br class="br">2010s, 2014
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