Is Every Civilization Doomed to Fail? - Gregory Aldrete [View all]

[Warpy]

Fatso has come along right on schedule However, he's skipped the benevolent despot/reformer stage and headed right for tyrant. There will be enough rage by the time we're rid of him to fuel some really real reforms if we can frighten the stodgy iparty insiders (BOTH parties) enough to enact them. We can survive this one.

We might not survive the next, especially if he (and it's usually a he) comes in as a great reformer then refuses to leave the march to tyranny being slower but inexorable.