Funny they never criticized Obola for his “I have a pen and a phone” comment, which is pretty much the same lust for unbridled power.
Not everything that Benny the Moose made as a statement was wrong or indicative of tyrannical rule. There is something very much of Imperial Rome in Il Duce’s statement of a principle that could have been lifted right from the Old Testament, and was certainly known in the pre-Christian world.
There is a moment for ferocity, and there is the languid period of submission and obedience. The motto “Live Free or Die” is very much of the same sentiment.
Living in submission is not freedom. No matter how much passivity is prettied up and held forth to be some kind of ideal, it remains some kind of death of the soul.