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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThomas Paine EXACTLY described Trump 244 years ago.
The insight of Americas forefathers never ceases to amaze me. (despite their faults):
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
"When they succeed to the government are frequently the most IGNORANT and UNFIT of any...."
I couldn't have expressed it better myself.
BComplex
(8,029 posts)Good job!!
AZ8theist
(5,447 posts)I will donate my prize money to Biden/Harris...
cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)Thomas Paine was a true thinker and revolutionary.
His writings were very important at that time and should be just as important today.
malaise
(268,846 posts)K & R for truth
Solomon
(12,310 posts)Docreed2003
(16,855 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)StClone
(11,683 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)How do we get rid of him?
paleotn
(17,902 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)shelshaw
(532 posts)paleotn
(17,902 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,115 posts)There was no golf, sports, motorcars, movies. There was nothing to do but drink, read, discuss. It's a testament to them, and to the recurring patterns of human organization in history, though different ages use different terminology to describe similar phenomena.
yonder
(9,662 posts)There are too many easily accessed pleasures that require little to no thinking OR discussion.
We're trapped in a modern maze of our own ill-thought construction while the pathway to freedom, though there, becomes increasingly difficult to discover.
bucolic_frolic
(43,115 posts)For me anyway. I remember learning to use a slide rule. You really had to think. Suddenly, calculators were there. You don't even have to know how to add anything nowadays. Just push buttons.
AZ8theist
(5,447 posts)The engineers who sent men the the moon used slide rules.
You are correct. It's all push button now.
Never ceases to amaze me that at places like McDonalds, in some areas, the cash register has PICTURES of menu items, not numbers.
The dumbing down of America is a Reich Wing feature of policy, not a bug. Keep the rubes stupid, and you can rape the treasury.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)fwvinson
(488 posts)internet, no phone service. We moved to a very beautiful and rural area. We did talk and laughed more those 4 nights than anytime. I guess camping is the same. It was real pleasant.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)bringthePaine
(1,727 posts)Scruffy1
(3,254 posts)I'm going to memorize it tomorrow. Thx.
paleotn
(17,902 posts)I have few heroes. He's one of them.
mitch96
(13,883 posts)It's like deja vu all over again!!
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wendyb-NC
(3,319 posts)He was right on target, describing the entity that occupies the oval office. His words are timeless and so applicable to the current situation.
dameatball
(7,396 posts)erpowers
(9,350 posts)I assume that was written based on his experience living in the time of King George III.
oasis
(49,365 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)czarjak
(11,266 posts)Believe me!
GeorgiaPeanut
(360 posts)crickets
(25,959 posts)eta- great name, GeorgiaPeanut.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Trump is among the absolute worst, of course, because he's not even intelligent or educated.
Yet many of them are basically tyrants because it's not like they're voted into power or can be voted out. I mean, by the "common people" working under them.
And after living that way for years, they can get accustomed to it.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)AZ8theist
(5,447 posts)struggle4progress
(118,270 posts)cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)Available at Project Gutenberg. They have different versions, even kindle.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147