Et
Tu, Cicero?
The following was written by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Yes,
that Cicero) around 50BC. If you just replace a few nouns
you'll see things haven't changed much since then:
“Do
not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically
acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom
and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions.
Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum
of the 'New, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome,
interpreted to mean 'More money, more ease, more security,
more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'”
And also Cicero:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But
it cannot survive treason from within.”
Cicero was a pretty schmott guy, a splendid orator,
and a staunch defender of the republic... which is pretty
much why his political enemies, namely Marc Antony, cut off
his
head
and hands.
They were taking no chances. Nowadays
enemies
of
the Republic politically neuter their foes with sex
scandals (Democrats only.)
=Lefty=
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