are "we" "allowing" this? "we" have nothing to say about it. We have no more power over our president and our imperial bureaucracy than Romans had over theirs. The powerful do what they will, and we suffer what we must.https://twitter.com/amyalkon/status/1143509674467024897 …
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3/ The genius of the American system over the Roman is that the Romans made it relatively clear that the people and slaves had no power, so they'd occasionally revolt, but the American system pretends that we're in charge.
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4/ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington coincidentally came out in 1939, during the height of the Progressive Era, and with FDR in his illegitimate and corrupt THIRD term as POTUS.
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5/ Hollywood was as much of a staunch principled critic of Cathedral power than as now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2zBU5XnEzs …
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