I guess it's true that a 'rat will NEVER give up the reins of power, no matter what the circumstances.
The secrecy really bother me, though. I'm old enough to remember all of those Russian Premiers with "the flu" in the bad years of the Cold War. Silence for a while, then a press release of a minor ailment, then suddenly there was a new Premier and the old one was never seen again.
Is this the way the Democratic Party does business now?
Yeah, for a while, I began to feel sorry for the Reagan State Department. The Soviet Premiers were dying so rapidly that I bet it was hard for Reagan to keep track of who was doing what where. Sort of the same thing, isn't it? Changing of guard occurs and the new generation wants more dramatic change than the old. Totalitarian systems always collapse eventually. All people want to be free.