The last band of free thinkers... have taken upon themselves the task of defending Christianity against contemporary Christians. If you are going to go on living as you are living, then you also have to admit that you are not Christians. What Christianity needs for certain is traitors.
- Kierkegaard

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt

I’ve heard commentators refer to Elon Musk as DJT’s “Praetorian Guard” in the White House.

In the year 193, the Praetorian Guard auctioned off the rule of the Roman Empire to the highest bidder.

Just saying.

“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the balance-wheel of the social machinery." - Horace Mann

The President-Elect claims that employees of the Department of Education hate American children.

“Mass imprisonment generates profits as it devours social wealth, and thus it tends to reproduce the very conditions that lead people to prison." - Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Stock in private prison companies jumped 41% last week.

Martin Buber said that despots and cult leaders speak in the "demonic thou." Fundamentally incapable believing other people are real, they experience life as an exercise in pure monologue. "The Thou that does not respond," but meets anyone and everyone else a possibly useful "it." Sound familiar?