Mel Gibson’s character said something in the movie `The Patriot’ that comes to my mind: “Why exchange one dictator a thousand miles away for a thousand dictators one mile away?” (Or something like that)
My GGGG etc:
General Thomas Sumter:
In the last year of life, he took a stand on a principle of government closest to his heart - that principle then, and now, referred to as “States Rights.” It was then (1832) that Calhoun’s doctrine of The right of nullifications by a state, in the event its reserved powers had been transgressed upon by the Federal Government, was being insisted upon by South Carolina. That dispute was at its height when he died at the age of 98.