Alexander Hamilton nails it from 225 years out

["David Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Subject: Alexander Hamilton nails it from 225 years out
Date: March 16, 2017 at 12:40:47 PM EDT
To: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>, Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>, Dave Farber <dave () farber net>

[ making the rounds today ]

        "The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion
        of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering
        the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies
        and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring
        on civil commotion.  Tired at length of anarchy, or want of
        government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for
        repose and security.

        [...] When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his
        fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents,
        despotic in his ordinary demeanor -- know to have scoffed in
        private at the principles of liberty -- when such a man is seen
        to mount the hobby horse of popularity -- to join in the cry of
        danger to liberty -- to take every opportunity of embarrassing the
        General Government & bringing it under suspicion -- to flatter
        and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day --
        it may be justly suspected that his object is to throw things into
        confusion that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.'"

        --- Alexander Hamilton, Objections and Answers Respecting
                the Administration, August 18, 1792

---rsk




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