Posted on 09/01/2021 9:27:05 PM PDT by Hernando Cortez
”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 he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and 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 a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the carrier of the plague. You have unbarred the gates of Rome to him.”
We don’t have a traitor. We have an entire swamp full of traitors.
Man, did Cicero nail these, our current rulers.
Bttt
I have thought about this quote since Clinton was elected in 92
This is how they undermined every institution in the country for decades. Now they are doing it openly every day. And it seems there are few left to oppose them. What a damned shame.
Our modern day traitors are those who are no longer motivated by nationalism, love of country and cultural identification with their countrymen but instead are deeply troubled and unhappy. They instead become comforted and inspired by destructive movements such as socialist globalism They are the cancer within. Cicero was right . They look and sound no different than anyone.
Yes, this is us right now but if anything good has come from this pandemic it is the awareness of the rot within. The battle is joined and hopefully will keep going. I am not ready to concede defeat so long as decent people resist the rot.
And moments later, Lindsey Graham entered the room.
if you don’t learn from history you’re doomed to repeat it.
“This is us”
Many fear you are correct. First time EVER, while holding the high ground/military might, Americans were callously abandoned by the Shit Show Joe crew.
God save us now!
You “nutted” that one! Well said!
Ahhhh...
“Linda” still has to brush the “funk and taste” of the Senator to never be spoken of again.
I have recalled those true words of Cicero several times in recent years.
The leakers during President Trumps admin were patriots per the media
Today the leakers to the same people are traitors
I wonder why the change hmmm
He wrote those words over 2000 years ago!
“Those that forget history….”
Wow! So on target. And has mentioned already, we don’t have a single traitor, but a large cabal who, having aligned themselves with ideologies that undermine our republic, have created a teeming mass of redefined “Americans” who do not believe like we do, who do not think like we do, who do not act like we do, who do not value what we do, who do not dedicate themselves to living their lives like we do.
We are, indeed, a house divided, and that house simply cannot stand. No Trump, no taking back control of one or both houses can change this. The hearts and minds of the people have been swung in a new direction by traitors to our republic (each day new traitors, having ascended to seats of authority and influence in every institution, have joined the cabal) and, we, like Rome, are in deep decline and plummeting toward destruction.
Who was he talking about? Catiline?
“There will be no Biden Impeachment” - (China) Mitch McConnell
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