On the Dangers of Blind Trust, Irrational Loyalty, and Unaccountable Leaders

“When it is laid down as a maxim, that a king can do no wrong, it places him in a state of similar security with that of idiots and persons insane, and responsibility is out of the question with respect to himself.”

Demanding blind loyalty and cronyism, shunning any criticism and persecuting the critic, allowing dogma, time after time, to trump reality, and using fear to enforce irrational doctrine and open contempt for the constraints of established law – and of congress…

Be it a King in the 18th century or a President in the 21st, it is madness to not hold those in power to account of their abuses and utter failure of power. As it was in the 18th century, then, so it is in the 21st: time to dislodge from power Mad King George.

 

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