They didn't have the right people in charge. They needed to have the best, brightest, well educated, caring and compassionate people running everything. It will work next time. Honest it will.
Yes, thanks for pinging an old thread. Next time, it will be better. Another century, another few hundred million corpses. We'll get there.
Lord Acton, Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely
Lord Acton, not that well known, other quotes out there, but he got it right. Before the internet. The concentration today is far greater. Neither Mao nor Goebbels could have imagined it. Nor could they have imagined the opposition, should the opposition have access to the "media". Formal or other.
Yeah, I know, a few hundred years ago it was called the public square. Important.