This from French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher François-Marie Arouet, known to us as Voltaire. If you’ve never read Candide, I hope you’ll treat yourself.
The reason he’s correct here is the truth of what Plato said 2000 years prior, which I paraphrase: Only people who do not desire power are qualified to have it.
The United States has had its issues with a few presidents, e.g., Jackson, Harding, and Nixon, though, until Trump, we never had a leader whose interests were based only on his own enrichment and aggrandizement.
Whoa. Let’s take a step back. Is it really either A or B?
You could on the side of the morons, those incapable of any level of critical thinking, like the author of the meme here.
The United States seems set on propelling itself backwards.
Maybe, as they say, “Hell has a special place reserved in it” for people like Thom Tillis, Republican Senator from North Carolina, who enabled Trump to rape and destroy the United States.
That was until it became clear to Tillis that he could jump ship, write a scathing book about the president, get all over mainstream news promoting it, and go on to enjoy another chapter of political success.
That we Americans are so stupid that we accept this blatant hypocrisy and criminality is sad proof that we’re not the people we were 20 years ago. Maybe what many people are saying are correct: we deserved what we got.
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