Quoted from emkay:If World War III can start in a vacuum of silence and stonewalling by the White House, we are doomed like rats in a maze of fear. We are slaves to mendacity and hostile disinformation. Bread and circuses were not enough to sustain the Roman Empire and they will not be enough for the United States of America.
-- Hunter S Thompson, Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness (2005)
It’s a shame HST is not still with us. I am sure his takes on the current political environment in the USA would have been instructive, biting, and hilarious all at once.