annatar1914 wrote:A Tyrant is one who by their actions or failures to act, is a ruler who has basically entirely turned against the common good of society. Problem is that under most circumstances people may have doubts as to what that ''common good'' is, so nobody should be too quick to judge who is a Tyrant in any case.
One could make the case that no USA president has had "the common good" as his top priority since JFK.
But I am certain that no president in my lifetime has been anything more than a Faustian mercenary for moneyed interests.
This type of tyranny-of-money has zero concern for public good, and has been the default in the Americas since Christopher Columbus's gang showed up here.
But they are everywhere today, these violently mercenary "governments" created by-and-for multinational corporations. Private. Not public. Winners and suckers.
These guys - our current crop of mercenary whore politicians and the private money they represent - will never unite a nation. They live off of division and violence (and lies).