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The Way Forward

In reply to the discussion: Fighting fire with fire [View all]

bucolic_frolic

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1. History is full of mad men who took their reign to fruition
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 03:26 PM
Jan 2025

I suppose some have been stopped along their path, but how would we know?

I don't know if that means we're in a worse place than I thought, or a better one.

For example, and I simplify because I only ever did a superficial read, supposedy Garibaldi, a sort of right of center military hero himself, saved Italy by deposing the monarch. Garibaldi returned from South America to do this, I think.

But there was Mad King Ludwig. Cromwell, who is described as saving England but being a power grab in his own right. THe period of the Hundred Years War had some tyrants. It's always religion that gets everyone all ginned up.

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Fighting fire with fire [View all] canetoad Jan 2025 OP
History is full of mad men who took their reign to fruition bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #1
I agree. Think. Again. Jan 2025 #2
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