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dlk

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2. Excellent Article and a Wake-Up Call for All of Us

Reply to JHan (Original post)

Fri Nov 23, 2018, 12:41 PM

Nov 2018

In politics, there is nothing new under the sun, including despot wannabes like Trump. We, the people, have the responsibility to recognize his intent and not take anything, including our institutions and our republic for granted, or they will be lost. To paraphrase, all evil needs to triumph is for good people to do nothing. We must all act to save our democracy.

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What Machiavelli can teach us about why democracies fall. [View all] JHan Nov 2018 OP

Kick dalton99a Nov 2018 #1

Excellent Article and a Wake-Up Call for All of Us dlk Nov 2018 #2

Plato said many of the same things 2,000 years earlier... TreasonousBastard Nov 2018 #3