Hamilton had it right

[Edwcraig]

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“the only path to a subversion of the Republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion.” Alexander Hamilton

[dutch777]

1. Brilliant man. Died too young. I recommend Ron Chernow's book on him. Shares much history of founding...

..of the country and the messy process and compromises of writing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and starting a fully functioning government from scratch.

[Arthur_Frain]

7. Chernow is a wonderful author

I enjoyed his bios of Washington and Grant too.

[flying_wahini]

8. So I went to my online library to look for Chernow and they have several renditions of it but they are all summarized?

Did you read the summary or the original book?

[dutch777]

11. I would do the full book

[surfered]

2. Very timely quote

[Wounded Bear]

3. Another parallel to Hitler that many people don't know...

is that the NAZI Party spent the last years of the 20's and the first few years of the 30's basically stopping the government from doing anything through parliamentary shenanigans and basically gumming up the works. That accomplished two goals, at least. For one, it got the population fed up with democracy, which in Germany had barely started a few years before after WWI. Meanwhile, the only things that did get done were by executive decree (think their version of Executive Orders) which reinforced the popular notion that they needed a "strong man" to get things done. They were primed to turn things over to Hitler.

Republicans have been doing that for years now, preventing things from getting done. Dems have overcome that in many cases through strong leadership and basic diplomacy, but there is a large section of the population who thinks we'd be better off with a dictator. We need to out-vote them this November at all levels and all branches of government.

[jaxexpat]

5. Anti-democracy yahoos need a "time out" because corporal punishment is non-productive.

[Delmette2.0]

4. Human nature in general, really doesn't change.

The warnings of the founding fathers are still true today.

[llmart]

6. The title of your post is something we all must remember.

There are some very basic truths about human behavior.

[walkingman]

9. Alexander Hamilton was only 21 years old when the Declaration of Independence

was being drafted. The maturity of young people in those days stands in stark contrast to our present society.

[Polybius]

10. I can't see that post, because it's a private Group

"END THE REPUBLICAN PARTY !"? Interesting Group name.