It’s 2008 all over again, except this time, instead of the mob ascribing all their hopes for change on a man running with a ‘D’ after his name, they do so with a Trump running with an ‘R’ after his.
I guess the Executive will forever now be seen as either a Monarchy or a Dictatorship in the minds of those seig-heiling whatever vaunted political candidate is their messiah.
Such people are not capable of freedom or liberty. This people do not want a Republic or the foundational principles that founded it. They want a king.
And they shall have it.
And all the consequences that come with it.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
I posted the following excerpt before from George Washington’s farewell speech. I’ll try to make this one even more brief.
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Excerpt:
...Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally...
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty....
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens....