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Originally Posted by Ironduke
Cicero ignored the rule of law, having men executed without even a trial. Cicero championed a farcical, ineffectual, incompetent, corrupt, obsolete aristocrat-controlled republic. He was shrill, elitist, Ivy League, draft dodging, and was self-ingratiating. His philosophy was stale and unoriginal. He was a 1st century B.C. John Kerry.
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John Kerry was not a draft dodger nor did he use his position to avoid combat. You are confusing him with someone else. I will agree with your other points on Cicero, better as an orator than a doer. Caeser was a doer of the highest order. None the less, the Roman republic died under Caeser. Not entirely his fault.
Dictatorships can, on occasion, do well under an enlightened dictator, The trouble is, they are inevitably followed sooner or later by some complete fool.