THANKFUL   formers not

 

Isaiah Berlin wrote The Hedgehog and the Fox in 1951

                                                           a critic E. H. Carr responded that what Berlin had really said was that any political program carried to an extreme will have authoritarian consequences so it would be better to avoid the political  concluding he wrote “Surtout, point de zele.” taking the phrase from Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord a diplomat who skillfully survived the French Revolution “Above all, gentleman, no zeal.” Berlin liked it so much he adopted it as his motto for the rest of his life

George F. Kennan American historian and diplomat best known as a strident advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War his critique was that totalitarianism takes advantage of peoples weaknesses manipulates “the irrational sides of their nature . . . what preserves us from being manipulated is the recognition that although we are imperfect, our problems are susceptible to solution by rational processes, and should be so approached and solved.”

            by rational processes, and should be so approached and solved

hence the weak irrational former can be solved absorbed eliminated by recognising he is 

by recognising there is one political party in America called the Democrats Republicans are not their equivalent and will not be until they embrace governance embrace seeking compromised solutions to problems the nation faces  provides a thoughtful political platform

                              NOT UNTIL

he was invested in common sense invested in not being anyones pawn   able to think for himself 

                                                                                                          not take orders

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