The Bushites are leading America down the same path as Athens,
\nthe true birthplace of democracy.
\nAthenians prized debate and persuasion over raw force.
\nThe downfall of Athens was believing they were invencible.<\/p>\n
1) They sent troops throughout the world,
\nthus trading democracy for imperalism.<\/p>\n
2) Their cruelty grew with military success (including torture).<\/p>\n
3) The cost of the military bankrupted Athens.<\/p>\n
The love of law made her great
\nthe abandoment of law brought her down.<\/p>\n
(exerpts from John Wheat Gibson’s paper)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bushites are leading America down the same path as Athens, the true birthplace of democracy. Athenians prized debate and persuasion over raw force. The downfall of Athens was believing they were invencible. 1) They sent troops throughout the world, thus trading democracy for imperalism. 2) Their cruelty grew with military success (including torture). 3) … Continue reading “America the new Athens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blathers","category-blog-spammers","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}