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Of course, history is written by the victors and the Levite priestly class were the keepers of the record, but the good, wise Kings were those who placed God’s word above all. Even within the lore of the most revered Jewish rulers; Moses and David, there are accounts of how they and the people were punished when hubris led them to ignore God’s word.

One can believe in a God(s), or not, but, with humans, things go south fast when a group of rulers, or the entire populous, believe humans are all powerful. As demonstrated in the 20th century by the Nazi’s, Soviets and Chinese Marxists.

The Greeks, Romans, Jews and Chinese (Egyptians?) are the cultures we have with the longest, written historical records. Literacy and record keeping were prized in all 3. There are recurring themes in all their histories of government overreach leading to suffering and civilizational collapse.

Our schools never taught Chinese history and they made teaching the history of the Jews illegal in the ’50s, then, in the ’70s began the big push to get rid of the Greeks and Romans. “Hey! Ho! Western Civ has got to go!” They’ve also found reasons to stop teaching Shakespeare who wrote of Emperors and Kings and the folly of human hubris.

If the citizenry wants subjugation, democracy is no more a bulwark against tyranny than tyranny itself.

closer to home, our good qatari friends have foreclosed any use of al udeid airborne, presumably against Iran or Islamic State,

As a historical record of the Jewish people the Bible is a 3,000 (5,000?) year history of the recurring theme of a group of people begging for a strongman to save them, and that leading to their enslavement. Seems to be the history of all societies.

It’s very difficult to get humans to choose freedom over security. The men who wrote the U.S. Constitution knew this and would not be surprised to see how powerful and controlling we citizens have allowed our government to become.

Athens collapsed under the ruins of the pelopennesian war, Rome after the Civil Wars and the Triumvirates, now we see how Europe is collapsing from within, and without,
there is gallows humour in seeing it happen in real time

so the Dems pushed Muh Russia, but when needed released a hitman, two spies, two hackers and a partridge in a pear tree much like they treated the future taliban negotiating team for one disgruntled corporal,