Let's go Brandon.
Personally, I prefer Plato’s Symposium on Love. One of the great pieces.
If you can’t get rid of them, change them.
(...at least as often as diapers.)
Tyrannies are always bloated with debt and bankrupt. That always lies at the base of their need for control
Bkmk
Aristotle did not have a front-row seat at the brief (404-403 BC) rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens following the Peloponnesian War - he’d be born 20 years later - but knew very well many of the participants, the survivors, at least. Chief among the Tyrants was Critias, an ex-student of Socrates, who openly mocked Critias and refused to obey his order to arrest a mutual acquaintance. In 8 months of rule the Tyrants managed to murder 5% of Athens’ entire population. Interesting times.
Aristotle considered the possession of arms synonymous with possession of political power: "when the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name -- a constitution . . . in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens" (Book 3, ch VII).
From our Declaration Of Independence;
” . . . when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
Abuses = enacting unConstitutional laws, regulations and EOs.
Usurpations = Stealing elections, lawfare, no swift justice as promised, spending beyond means, onerous taxes, exempting law makers from laws they make etc, etc.