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Mickey D's avatar

What I like most about this article is that it points out that authoritarian societies don't do the bidding of dictators; dictators do the bidding of authoritarian societies. Ceausescu seemed secure in his position until he ceased to deliver what Romanian society wanted. I wish someone would point out that, for most of history, the most persecuted minority is successful businessmen, derided as "robber barons", "captalist pigs","scheming Jews", etc, when they are in fact the source of all progress.

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Manuel Hinds's avatar

Hi, Randy. I agree with you. I wrote this when Trump was in power, so it's not a matter of who is in power but one about who has showed his colors. In the book this is extracted from, I have several paragraphs saying that this is not a matter of left and right, or democrats and republicans, that divisiveness spans across the political divides. And the Truckers convoys were still one or two years in the future. I will write something about it. You can follow me in manuelhinds.com.

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