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Posted on 02/15/2021 10:39:09 AM PST by Robert DeLong
So share it with friends & family.
What has changed is that many of the poor in this country have phones, more than enough food, pay no rent or mortgage, have internet, cars....etc
I would highly recommend Taylor Caldwell’s historical novel whose central character is Cicero: Pillar of Iron. In college, I found that I could not put it down. And I’m not really into fiction.
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“Marcus Tullius Cicero was born on January 3, 106 B.C., and was beheaded… murdered actually...”
I’m glad EP Unum clarified that because after I read he was beheaded I totally wasn’t thinking he was murdered.
All our Founders considered Cicero their favorite Roman philosopher.
More support for why they HATE Trump. He was exposing this racket for all to see more clearly than ever before.
Yep, and that is why they want him (President Trump) completely out of the political arena. They fear him just like Cicero was feared.
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Yes historical fiction, but a fantastic quote:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron
Lost in all of this is the fact that what our nation has evolved to is not at all what our Founders wanted for us when they handed us a Constitutional Republic.
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They handed us a constitutional republic and we turned it into a kleptocracy.
All our Founders considered Cicero their favorite Roman philosopher.
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Our present crop of lightweight politicians probably doesn’t know a thing about him.
I was reading an essay by Cicero many years ago and what astounded me was that it was a perfect description of our current welfare state and barbarian invasion although he was writing about Rome.
Got it on my bookshelf.
Yep, the outsider and champion of the people who dared to be an honest disruptor had to go. Belief in our founding principles is a threat to kleptocratic rule. They are trying to banish him for good.
I was reading an essay by Cicero many years ago and what astounded me was that it was a perfect description of our current welfare state and barbarian invasion although he was writing about Rome.
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Guess how the (once) United States of America will end up?
Well if this is true a lot has changed.
poor-—————————work and work and work some more
No, most of the poor are either temporarily giving up income to get ahead or they are coasting on social welfare, criminally minded, or have drug dependencies.
The rich——————————exploit the poor
No, the rich tend to employ those in need of work and produce goods and services that benefit most of not all.
The soldier————————protects and defends both unquestionably
No, I am afraid much of our military has become a pc police. My heart goes out to those who are not.
The taxpayer-———————pays for all three
The banker-————————robs all four
No, bankers overall build wealth in their communities.
The lawyer-————————misleads all five
No, they keep us from being a police state and some heroically fight to preserve our freedoms.
The physician———————bills all six
No, there are many who work pro Bono and reduced - my doctor charges me way less than standard cause he’s kind and I pay in cash for example. Anyway, of course they normally bill, they are not slaves.
The goons and rioters-——scare all seven
Yes, sadly. A failure to keep law and order.
The politician———————lives happily on account of all eight
We have good guys and bad guys.
This is excellent!
Cicero’s big mistake was making an enemy of Mark Antony who defended Julius Caesar after he was assassinated by the “Liberator’s” Cassius and Brutus. When Antony and Caesar’s son Octavian teamed up to divide up Roman rule Antony ordered that Cicero be killed in revenge for his writing the “Philippics” that had attacked him.
Cicero was hunted down and actually held his own head so that Antony’s henchmen could behead him. They also cut off his hands that had written the Philippics. The fall of the Roman Republic was fueled by many such murderous acts for political revenge.
“Guess how the (once) United States of America will end up?”
Wait, wait, I know this one. Give me a minute.
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