Democracies Are Fragile
What Frank Herbert says here is true.
It seems to be another way of saying what Plato did: “Only those who don’t want power are qualified to hold it.”
Perhaps this is the reason that democracies have a finite shelf life on this planet.
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Americans need to keep in mind that our failure to remove Donald Trump from our political scene threatens to put an end to what has been, by and large, quite a successful run.
