09-14-2018, 08:04 PM
True. I won't tell how the coup turns out, as that would be a spoiler.
The President to be overthrown seems like a dead ringer for Adlai Stevenson (I forget which Roman numerals) who is a 'tired' Lost liberal whom the Right considers grossly immoral for not endorsing a ferocious, ultra-capitalist and anti-Soviet agenda.
I can imagine the update. Let's start with the obvious -- that Adlai Stevenson was a man of principle, which is very different from what Donald Trump is. I'm thinking that some senior general tells the President that he is not going to initiate an aggressive war to annex Cuba or overthrow the Venezuelan government.
The President to be overthrown seems like a dead ringer for Adlai Stevenson (I forget which Roman numerals) who is a 'tired' Lost liberal whom the Right considers grossly immoral for not endorsing a ferocious, ultra-capitalist and anti-Soviet agenda.
I can imagine the update. Let's start with the obvious -- that Adlai Stevenson was a man of principle, which is very different from what Donald Trump is. I'm thinking that some senior general tells the President that he is not going to initiate an aggressive war to annex Cuba or overthrow the Venezuelan government.
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.