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   ggggg9271@gmail.com to Eric Stevens   
   Re: "Are we going the way of Rome?"   
   30 Jul 19 20:48:38   
   
   On Monday, July 29, 2019 at 2:48:57 PM UTC-10, Eric Stevens wrote:   
   > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 06:43:31 -0700 (PDT), "Oh so rich & successful   
   > JTEM"  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Eric Stevens wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> The parallel I see is the unreasoning "hate Caesar" campaign initially   
   > >> lead by Cato the younger and the 'boni'. Trump is a very poor fit for   
   > >> Caesar and I have no idea who is the modern Cato. But the unreasoning   
   > >> hate by many for anything (no matter how reasonable) done by one man   
   > >> is a striking parallel.   
   > >   
   > >As a liberal Democrat I have to agree that the left is as insanely   
   > >anti Trump as the right was anti Clinton.   
   > >   
   > How can you run a country/empire when the participants in bipartisan   
   > politics recognise absolutely no good in anything done by the other   
   > party - when they go out of the way to twist the truth and invent new   
   > hate-fillied lies? No country can long survive being run on that   
   > basis.   
      
   - Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole   
   purpose of defeating party.   
      
   James Fenimore Cooper   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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