Thursday, July 6, 2017

Tyranny

At the end of his life Thomas Jefferson, one of the 1776 revolutionary founders of America, still hated tyranny with a passion.

In his last letter he said, "[T]he mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor [were] a favored few [born] booted and spurred, ready to ride them."

A different revolution occurred in 1917, the communist revolution led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.


"Obey" who? Leon Trotsky considered himself one of the favored few born booted and spurred, ready to ride the rest of us. 

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