“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Also at the Idaho State Journal, Larry Gebhardt hears a rhyme.
Here’s a bit of his parsing of the poesy:
Throughout history, tyrants and oligarchs have understood that their major enemy is an educated citizenry. Slaveholders prohibited the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Putin and Xi censor the media. Big tech and well-funded political action spread mis- and disinformation. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
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*Mark Twain.
