12-06-2020, 07:56 PM
(12-06-2020, 12:03 PM)David Horn Wrote:(12-06-2020, 09:24 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: A recent CNN article's headline had Trump removing experts in the Pentagon and replacing them with partisan party loyalists. It brings back memories of an old time. Reds versus experts anyone? Mao would be proud to be vindicated, I think. Trump's Great Leap Forward? At least out of the White House?
Sad is it not? How did we ever get this far down the rabbit hole? Are we still the people capable of getting ourselves back out? To be honest, I'm skeptical ... too many are still tunneling down looking for their own personal Shangri-La.
I trust that the experts will be back when Biden is President.
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.