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Related: About this forumTyrants Always Fall
For those times when I feel downhearted:
rampartc
(5,458 posts)thucythucy
(8,139 posts)and held accountable for their crimes.
rampartc
(5,458 posts)i think you get the picture, thucy.
rurallib
(62,491 posts)thucythucy
(8,139 posts)Moral Compass
(1,539 posts)Trueblue Texan
(2,454 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)But by then, the damage is done.
Want justice? Then tyrants must be prevented.
thucythucy
(8,139 posts)But unfortunately we don't seem very able to do that all that often.
Tyrants in general are obsessed with power, and obsession almost always wins out over those with better morals but less drive to control the lives of others.
In the video the swastika exploding brings home your point. Yeah, Hitler was defeated, but only after he committed genocide and launched the bloodiest war in history and destroyed most of Europe.
But I still get a charge out of this song.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)I just get very frustrated at the way we keep letting the bad guys win for a long time, then expect sacrifices from good people to right the situation, then hand the power back to the bad guys again.
I guess my real point was that we should have seen this coming a long time ago.
Ptah
(33,057 posts)thucythucy
(8,139 posts)doesn't scan nearly so well.