The idea that one human being would WANT another human being to be locked behind bars for stepping on a wild-flower is an amazing thing to me. But then, everything about the totalitarian mind-set of socialism amazes me. I just don't get why people WANT to be the boss of every little thing that every person does.
Because power has driven the world since it began. The bigger eat the smaller. It is part of the human animal spirit. Power is the ultimate drug.
This is what Europeans can never understand and why they hold our country in disdain. They have all at one tme or another been ruled by tribal chiefs, kings, emperors and dictators; the U.S. has not.
This primacy of the American individual human spirit has been bred out of their genes...
Sargon, Alexander are remote enough in time to view with some amusement and curiosity.
These new fascists are serious.