Quote/Comment: The dearth of anything new under the sun...

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provision against danger, real or pretended, from abroad." -
James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798.

I am really getting tired of finding quotes like this. 200+ years old is bad enough, but the precept goes back probably to the time of Hammurabi or prior.

Makes me think humanity is getting more stupid with every generation. Maybe they do need to become slaves. Maybe it's a genetic predisposition to decay into servitude.

It is obvious that humanity isn't being ruled by the finest minds on the planet, so we aren't losing due to an increase in intellect among the political classes.
Doesn't that indicate the inverse?

And Condi Rice makes my point