Bill Whittle explains in the video essay below (H/T to InstaPundit) why people who aspire to run the lives of others should be kept from even the tiniest shred of power. Not because they are dangerously smart and cunning, but because they are extraordinarily STUPID. And invariably vicious, too. From Lenin, to Stalin, to Hitler, to Castro, to Pol Pot, to Ho Chi Minh, to Mao Tse Tung, to Hugo Chavez…such people must be resisted, to quote Malcolm X, "by any means necessary." The alternative—as history has shown over and over again—is horrendous to contemplate.
Century after century, kingdom upon kingdom, historical travesty upon historical travesty….
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