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True Blue Door

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2. Strength and dictatorship have nothing to do with each other.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 9, 2014, 09:04 PM

Oct 2014

Washington, Lincoln, FDR were strong leaders, but not dictators by any stretch of the imagination. Nixon was both strong and had profoundly dictatorial features. George W. Bush was a weak dictator.

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You say "weak leaders" like it's a bad thing Warpy Oct 2014 #1

Strength and dictatorship have nothing to do with each other. True Blue Door Oct 2014 #2