A darn shame her husband didn’t listen to her. Even more abide by anything she believed in.
She knew some good truths. But that’s evidently not the whole pic if my memory trace is accurate.
And I don't mean that to knock her (Barbara). With great power comes great responsibility, great temptation, and a view of the world/humanity that few people ever come to grasp.
-- A darn shame her husband didn't listen to her. --
Maybe he did. Who knows, and in the long run, it doesn't much matter. The way of the world is that the powerful rule. Sometimes well, usually mediocre, and sometimes bad.
I am in deep awe of the DoI and what it says; and at bottom it depends on nationalism. This principle, nationalism, has been under attack FOREVER. And past that, nations governed by the people? Heresy.