If these numbers are accurate, it says allot about Counties that are predominantly democrat.
Yes, eventually we will have our Gais Marius and then our Lucius Cornelius Sulla and all that was known and traditional will be broken. The next generations will flop in the wind until somebody(Gais Julius Caesar) comes along to forge anew of which that was broken.
Just wait till the newly retired baby boomers start voting themselves better prescription drug benefits and increased social security payments. Younger people won't have the numbers to counteract this.
This goes to show that history does not repeat. Also, political prophets have been out to lunch all along.
I’ve often had a good laugh about this. The Athenian republic didn’t last very long, and in one of its incarnations (the famous one) fell under the spell of Pericles, who won power like so:
“All kinds of enterprises should be created which will provide an inspiration for every art, find employment for every hand... we must devote ourselves to acquiring things that will be the source of everlasting fame.”
So they spent twenty years and a staggering sum of money building the Parthenon, then got themselves started on a war with Sparta, during which time Athens was shuttered and cluttered and a bunch of people (including Pericles) died of some kind of epidemic (wouldn’t surprise me to learn it was typhus, but really could have been almost anything); not satisfied with that, the Athenian mobocracy launched an invasion of Sicily, with a view to conquering Syracuse, and lost nearly every ship and soldier sent there.
Years earlier, Themistocles had talked the Athenians into using their newfound wealth (from a large strike of silver, in a mine which finally closed in the 19th or 20th century AD) to build a fleet of ships, which came in handy when he had to devise the defense of the city (and actually, all of Greece) and came up with a couple of clever ruses and ultimately, a massive victory against the Persian navy at Salamis.
Sidebar: there’s a too-short article by Victor Davis Hanson in Military History Quarterly about some recently recovered fragments of Hyperides, an ancient Greek politician / orator. Some of the fragments discuss Salamis and other Persian War -era battles.
http://www.historynet.com/magazines/mhq
Chavez was freely elected. Now, he’s going to be their dictator, unless the poeple there, do something about it. And not like the people there, can count on the UN, a body that was supposed to handle that kind of thing. Freely elected, then he stole the freedome to have him removed from office. Amazing, and people think “it can’t happen here”.
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