Destructive Democrats
Subtitle: What Would the Romans do? Foremost among the reasons I despise the democrat party is its destructive nature. It builds nothing; it exists to destroy. In the name of… Read more »
Tag: Machiavelli
On Corruption and Government – Part I Niccolo’ Machiavelli
The Roman historian Titus Livius (59BC – 17AD), better known as Livy, wrote, “History is full of fine things to take as models, and base things, rotten through and through,… Read more »
On Corruption and Government – Introduction
Where there is government there is corruption. Corruption is a broad term. Perhaps in its simplest meaning it is just a departure from an original design. Various federal statutes set… Read more »
Donald Trump: The Machiavellian Man
America 2016 is in a bad place. Our once republic of laws, in which carefully designed institutions served the noble ends enumerated in the Preamble to the Constitution, has been… Read more »
Grand Juries and Free Government
Like you, I listened slack-jawed as James Comey argued that somehow there is an unbridgeable legal divide between Hillary’s extreme recklessness and indictable gross negligence. Bravo Sierra meters pegged nationwide…. Read more »
Stop the Suffering
There are two broad factions that stand in opposition to the people’s use of their sovereign capacity in Article V to stop and reverse the accelerating despotism of the executive… Read more »
Hillary and Our Duty To Retrieve Free Government Part III
In parts I & II last April, I referenced Niccolo’ Machiavelli’s examination of the tough job that awaits good men in corrupt republics to restore free government. Just as a… Read more »
Cato’s Letter #115: The Encroaching Nature of Power, Ever to be Watched and Checked
This letter is among Cato’s best. Like Machiavelli in a few of his Discourses on Livy, Cato touches on the nature of despots, and the measures taken by the Roman… Read more »
Cato’s Letter #16: The Leaders of Parties, Their Usual Views . . . *
The full title to this letter from 1720 doesn’t do justice to its content: how the fallen nature of men is concentrated once they become politicians. The outcome of party… Read more »
To Retrieve Free Government, Part II
From yesterday’s post regarding thoroughly corrupted republics, Machiavelli* found that even when a few wise laws are passed, corrupt institutions in society and government will turn the law away from… Read more »