I say, without the slightest hint of sarcasm or tongue in cheek, that this is a perfect description of your typical Democratic legislator.
I say, without the slightest hint of sarcasm or tongue in cheek, that this is a perfect description of your typical Democratic legislator.
And also your typical Leftist/Communist agitator.
The seductiveness of power is most dangerous to people who percieve themselves to be better/smarter than average. From that follows the idea that the "masses" should be controlled "for their own good". And from THAT inevitably follows the death camps, gulags, and killing fields, because it is inevitable that the masses will not cooperate...
What Tolkein points out is that desire for power over others will corrupt even someone who was originally good