12-14-2021, 03:01 PM
(12-14-2021, 02:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(06-29-2020, 10:26 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(06-29-2020, 09:36 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Churchill had his faults; he was a racial bigot and he was very wrong on Indian independence. On the other hand, the UK was one of the few European countries to come out of WWII with its Jewish population intact. Churchill did read Hitler right.
I read a story once that Churchill had a daydream in his youth that he would someday save the British Empire from a great evil that would threaten civilization. When Hitler came around, he recognized him, and sort of positioned himself to become that hero...
We have him back. Biden has his faults too. But he has been appointed to be the next Churchill and the next Lincoln. There's no-one else available. Strange as it may seem!
Churchill was prime minister at age 80, roughly ten years after the war.
One thing is certain: Trump is not the sort of leader who can get us out of a mess.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.