Tom Paine 1949
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- Mar 15, 2020
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Trump’s insanity expressed here is laughable, but his cult supporters buying his nonsense is truly pathetic.
No representative democracy, no Republic, can function if it’s top leader acts like a King. Only sycophants and “yes men” can function effectively — even in a monarch’s administration — if they must moment to moment guess what the “Great Leader” is “thinking.”
A President, a King, how would it be possible even to guess what they wanted classified if it was all in … the boss’s mind? And how would his aides know what must be protected from enemy eyes? Or what could be shared with the public? Or what must be circulated only to designated personnel?
It is all impossible to imagine, Republican government itself is impossible to imagine, if rules and procedures concerning classification of material are not spelled out clearly.
I am for the greatest transparency possible in government, and when government leaders hide crucial truths from the people that they should be aware of, I support whistleblowers who make public political and government corruption, and lies, and deceit.
I supported Assange and want him freed now!
But Trump, who screamed about the importance of keeping classified documents secret in the past … and who pardoned his corrupt convicted buddies but not Assange, is here acting like a dictator and court jester … at the very same time.
He is making a fool of himself and of his cult followers.
No representative democracy, no Republic, can function if it’s top leader acts like a King. Only sycophants and “yes men” can function effectively — even in a monarch’s administration — if they must moment to moment guess what the “Great Leader” is “thinking.”
A President, a King, how would it be possible even to guess what they wanted classified if it was all in … the boss’s mind? And how would his aides know what must be protected from enemy eyes? Or what could be shared with the public? Or what must be circulated only to designated personnel?
It is all impossible to imagine, Republican government itself is impossible to imagine, if rules and procedures concerning classification of material are not spelled out clearly.
I am for the greatest transparency possible in government, and when government leaders hide crucial truths from the people that they should be aware of, I support whistleblowers who make public political and government corruption, and lies, and deceit.
I supported Assange and want him freed now!
But Trump, who screamed about the importance of keeping classified documents secret in the past … and who pardoned his corrupt convicted buddies but not Assange, is here acting like a dictator and court jester … at the very same time.
He is making a fool of himself and of his cult followers.
