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To: MtnClimber

“Has there ever before been a country in which the leaders simply replaced the native population?” I couldn’t think of one—but Aristotle could. He revealed that one specific type of leader desperately wants to be surrounded by foreigners: the tyrant.

Having alienated his own people, writes Aristotle, the tyrant can no longer trust them, and he feels safe only when surrounded by those to whom he imputes the virtues he believes his own people lack—and whom he believes (probably naively) will not destroy him as his own people will eventually be driven to do.


Commie Dems ... to a T (for tyrant :)


8 posted on 07/12/2026 5:46:48 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Jane Long
Bump!

There is only one good type of dictator. A dead one.

Right now, a lot of them are accumulating.

19 posted on 07/12/2026 7:51:04 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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