01-25-2022, 12:53 AM
(01-24-2022, 10:38 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-24-2022, 10:30 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I'd think Trump would want to get away from the idea that you should lock up the leader of the opposition...
Why should he? The Democrats haven't moved away from it yet. You are aware that Trump is the leader of the opposition right.
Essential to democracy is a meaningful opposition. The opposition is like competition in business: it tends to keep people honest.
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.