The Patriot and the Traitor Roles In the 2016 Election
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and
hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it
costs nothing to be a patriot." Mark Twain
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot
survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for
he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst
those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the
alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor
appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he
wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies
deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works
secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he
infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is
less to fear.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
The 2016 presidential election is the most divisive and contentious one
since the election of Lincoln in 1860, when the opposition to Lincoln was
divided - with John C. Breckinridge, Southern Democrat, John Bell,
Constitutional Federalist, and Stephen A. Douglas, Northern Democrat,
dividing the vote. The result was the 1861-65 War.
Could it be that one reason why the 2016 election is divisive is because some are taking on the role of the traitor and some are acting in the role of the patriot, which are directly and totally opposite roles?
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and
hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it
costs nothing to be a patriot." Mark Twain
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot
survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for
he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst
those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the
alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor
appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he
wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies
deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works
secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he
infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is
less to fear.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
The 2016 presidential election is the most divisive and contentious one
since the election of Lincoln in 1860, when the opposition to Lincoln was
divided - with John C. Breckinridge, Southern Democrat, John Bell,
Constitutional Federalist, and Stephen A. Douglas, Northern Democrat,
dividing the vote. The result was the 1861-65 War.
Could it be that one reason why the 2016 election is divisive is because some are taking on the role of the traitor and some are acting in the role of the patriot, which are directly and totally opposite roles?