Wednesday, February 28, 2018

The "Day of the Dictator" is back

Former POTUS, George H. W. Bush ( Papa Bush ), in his inaugural speech, said that the day of the dictator was over.

Looking around the world, it looks like China has returned to one-man rule.  Russia has done it.  Venezuela did it.  It seems to be the latest rage.

Oh, my.  What Ronald Reagan giveth, the Bushies taketh away.  Now, how did that happen?

Let's see.  What does Judas Iscariot, Benedict Arnold, John Dean,  and John McCain have in common?  Yeah, the "heroes" ( still alive ) don't like this to be pointed out about what they did.

They made it good for themselves while making it bad for others.  They got their pieces of silver, which opened the door to oppression.

Hey, if you are going to be a hero, be a real hero.  Don't fake it.  You don't say that you will do something, and then turn around and do the opposite.  Not only that, but by doing the opposite, claiming that this makes you a hero.  ( hear that, John McCain ? )

Just sayin'.

Updated, same day, 2.28.18:

8:43 am:

A quote from a commenter on Free Republic seems apt.  It preceded Jesus Christ, so it can be said that it isn't religious, in case that bothers you:

A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city.

But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague. — Marcus Tullius Cicero, from a speech given to the Roman Senate, recorded in approximately 42 B.C. by Sallust.


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