Methinks you’d better go back and read more history — especially OURS!
“Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic but will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path to destruction.” T. Jefferson
“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic giant to step the ocean and crush us at one blow Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.
“At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” Abraham Lincoln, 1837 (NOT one of my favorite figures but he got THIS one right.)
Both these men knew history and UNDERSTOOD the grave perils of the national arrogance that doomed other nations — and which they both knew could (would?) beset America.
Stick with St. John the Devine for this kind of stuff.
Now you listen to me! I did not have sex with that woman! .........
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