Bread and Circuses: Largesse Favors the Timid

Bread and Circuses: Largesse Favors the Timid If Fortune favors the bold, largess favors the timid. Largesse allows people to settle for less to avoid work, inhibits risk-taking, and dampens the drive to grow and to thrive. The bread and circuses approach to governance distracts a people of low virtue into a stupor where they …

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The Fall of the American Republic is Looming

In the early days of this Republic, the media were even willing to savage George Washington, a man who had sacrificed or risked as much or more than any other American to establish and preserve this nation. Despite Washington’s record of honorable, steadfast and selfless service to his country, the press of his day accused him of being a thief, a seditionist, and would be monarch.