And so it is still true today!

[RED]

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is trueeven of the pious brethren that carry the gospel to foreign parts.

The whole aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) bu menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginery.

H.L. Mencken

[barretcreek]

Very true RED, but Hitler, Tojo and Stalin were real and thank God people such as Churchill, FDR and Truman recognized that.

[RED]

Very true RED, but Hitler, Tojo and Stalin were real and thank God people such as Churchill, FDR and Truman recognized that.

So now we have the Squad and the Stooges and almost nobody here recognizes them for what they are.

[dryheat]

Red-y

[togor]

So now we have the Squad and the Stooges and almost nobody here recognizes them for what they are.

You trolling us Red? You're the one who repeatedly testified that you saw Trump as the only one who could save the country. You put him in the Messiah seat and now a Mencken quote excoriating messiahs? Red-y indeed.

[bruce]

Have no idea who HLM is or was. Do not care. Neither statement is more than poorly thought out opinion. Sincerely. bruce.

[Clark Howard]

Ignorance is so elegant in it's simplicity.

[Vern Humphrey]

Ignorance is so elegant in it's simplicity.

The last of the great illiterates.

[togor]

Someone in public life getting a Messiah complex.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1164138796205654016?ref_url=https%3a%2f%2fd-5837484601808057208.ampproject.net%2f1908162134430%2fframe.html

[Roadkingtrax]

Someone in public life getting a Messiah complex.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonal...0%2fframe.html

Last time they just nailed them to a cross to quiet them down.

[togor]

Last time they just nailed them to a cross to quiet them down.

How about a White House petition to that effect? For next Easter?

Anyways, he said it himself.

I am the chosen one.

https://www.politico.eu/article/trumps-new-trade-war-rationale-i-am-the-chosen-one/

[Roadkingtrax]

Togor, somehow I dont see him being the self-flagellation type with respect to his faith. Maybe if he heads to the Philippines for Easter Holy Week?

[togor]

Togor, somehow I dont see him being the self-flagellation type with respect to his faith. Maybe if he heads to the Philippines for Easter Holy Week?

A gofundme maybe.

[lyman]

RED,

do you know who H L Mencken is and what he believed,


if you can believe Wiki,,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

As a scholar, Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. As an admirer of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was an outspoken opponent of organized religion, theism, populism, and representative democracy, the latter of which he viewed as systems in which inferior men dominated their superiors.[2] Mencken was a supporter of scientific progress, and was critical of osteopathic and chiropractic medicine. He was also an ardent critic of economics.

Mencken opposed both American entry into World War I and World War II. His diary indicates that he was a racist and antisemite, who privately used coarse language and slurs to describe various ethnic and racial groups (though he believed it was in poor taste to use such slurs publicly).[3] Mencken at times seemed to show a genuine enthusiasm for militarism, though never in its American form. "War is a good thing," he once wrote, "because it is honest, it admits the central fact of human nature ... A nation too long at peace becomes a sort of gigantic old maid."[4]

[togor]

Sound's like Red's kind of guy. Not really seeing the issue there.