
There’s an old saying you may have seen around that goes, “Weak men create hard times.” Actually, to be precise, it’s the fourth part of a phrase that begins with “Hard times create strong men”, and it’s not that old; it’s from a post-apocalyptic novel called Those Who Remain. (In case you thought it was from The Fourth Turning. Spoiler alert: it’s not!) At any rate, the phrase does have a certain Fourth Turning-ish ring to it, and not by accident. On cable television, on the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, from Silicon Valley to Ottawa to Brussels and everywhere in between, we live in a world run by bureaucrats, busybodies, liars, passive-aggressors, power-mongers and throne-kissers. (Oh my!)
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