#demagogues

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear." Hannah Arendt.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[bostonwalks]

The path to peace in the Middle East. Regime change in Iran!

[cat-cosplay]

"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues and ending tyrants."

~Federalist no. 1, Oct. 27, 1787

[blackswaneuroparedux]

War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

- Ernest Hemingway

[mvaljean525]

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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Self-Reliance (Essay) 1841

Ralph Waldo Emerson  1803-1882

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Graphic - Marx Reichlich  1460-1520

[agentfascinateur]

The bigoted demagogues Trump & Netanyahu :

For both, regaining or holding on to power means, among other things, subordinating judicial institutions that define and enforce the rule of law. That’s because both have hanging over them grave allegations of high crimes against the state.

Opinion | The Trump-Netanyahu Strategy Is Revealed

Israel’s democratic crisis could become America’s.

[mokokoma]

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