“Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.”
President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that the American democracy was fragile. How prescient was he to have, 220 years earlier, envisioned Donald Trump and his enablers in the Republican Party?
Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt.
This, That, and the Other 
I saw a comment today that the book Lord of the Flies is an analogy of the US today
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It’s been literally decades since I read that book, so I’d need to refresh myself before commenting further.
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Probably more applicable to England. Private school boys on an island, all is good until they turn on one another and their world descends into chaos
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Yes Yrs and yes!!
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Yes even. I wish there was an edit for comments!!
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… but you have to have an electorate which is sophisticated enough to spot that. It’s almost a given that power attracts the wrong people.
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I was quite ‘stunned’ by this…….
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Washington has a rough time as President. Just because we won the revolution didn’t mean they didn’t attack him in the press, float ugly rumors about him and just make him absolutely miserable. He KNEW what he was talking about. All he wanted by the end of his second term was to go home and be left alone on his farm.
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Too bad Trump won’t do that.
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Texas Editor: Police in Uvalde are Actively
Obstructing Us from Doing Our Jobs
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… The Secret Bilderberg Meetings Between
Spies, War Hawks, and World Leaders
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wow! 220 years ago he said this? He was spot on!
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Yes he was!
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