Ken wrote this relevant quote from the past


"The transition from democracy to tyranny, Plato says, is most easily
brought about by a popular leader who knows how to exploit the class
antagonism between the rich and the poor within the democratic state,
and who succeeds in building up a bodyguard or a private army of his
own. The people who have hailed him first as the champion of freedom are
soon enslaved; and then they must fight for him, in 'one war after
another which he must stir up... because he must make the people feel
the need of a general'." Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies,
1943.

If that made sence; then perhaps so does this one at least to Osama anyway

.."The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason, is terror and
force"
A H  (the former paper hanger)  Mien Kampf 1933

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