I never thought I’d quote Karl Marx but here he is “history repeats itself, first as tragedy than as farce.” Most readers of this post weren’t born when the following statement became part of the public consciousness during the Vietnam war — “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” This quote has often been paraphrased as “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” Whether or not it was actually said to Peter Arnett, a critic of the war, is forever unknown and quite contentious. It was said during the Tet offensive about the battle of Ben Tre, a Vietnam provincial capital in January 1968, the year I became an Air Force MD. It was definitely a tragic time.
Now we have the farce of the Colorado Supreme Court removing a candidate (Trump) from the ballot to save democracy.
Well, you can’t say you weren’t warned — from a post of two weeks ago
No, the Onion hasn’t taken over the opinion page of the New York Times. Nor was this written by the ghost of George Orwell, or Ali Khamenei the current ‘supreme leader’ of Iran who chooses who may run for office and who may not. It was written by Mark A. Graber, a constitutional scholar and university professor in Maryland, proving yet again that only someone of high intelligence could defend something so stupid. But as Marshall McLuhan said ‘the medium is the message’, and the fact that the Times chose to publish it is significant. Nothing published by the Times happens by chance. It is the American Pravda after all — https://luysii.wordpress.com/2023/11/21/reading-americas-pravda/
