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Missing alternatives: on many vital issues, the major media seek to prevent Americans from considering any alternatives that do not further the goals of the media's globalist masters. (Hobson's Choice).
English stable owner Thomas Hobson had a rather peculiar way of selling horses. Customers who arrived at his 17th-century establishment were told they were perfectly free to examine any animal in the barn but, if they wished to purchase one, they must select the horse in the stall nearest the door. His method of doing business gave rise to the phrase "Hobson's choice," a choice that is really no choice at all.
Over the years, this idiom's meaning has been broadened to refer not just to a lack of options but to equally unsatisfactory options. Today, we actually live in a "Hobson's choice" world where our only policy alternatives are offered up by a variety of ...
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