George Santayana was an immigrant.
Born in Spain in 1863, he moved to Boston in 1869 with his mother and siblings. He would eventually attend Harvard College, and then become a professor of philosophy there where he instructed such historic figures as T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein.
As a philosopher, Santayana was one among many. But when it comes to his aphorisms, he was unparalleled. His most famous, of course, concerns history: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” He also had this gem: “Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”
Here we are, a century and a half later, and America seems to be on the brink of another civil war. On one side, you have Donald Trump who is pushing to make America great again. On the other side, you have Democrats and the political left, those who promise to “resist.”
But wait a minute. That doesn’t make sense.
America is not on the brink of civil war. Trump is not Adolph Hitler or Benito Mussolini. Nor is the so-called “resistance” really a resistance. It’s a political movement.
The Democratic resistance is taking on a form of fanaticism. Its adherents are redoubling their efforts to stop Trump but forgetting what their aim is.
What the American people don’t want is eight years of political warfare that achieves nothing but more partisanship and anger in the nation’s heartland.
Santayana once said, “Sanity is madness put to good uses.” It’s time that politicians on both sides bring more sanity and less madness to the process, and move this country forward......snip~
http://thehill.com/opinion/opinion/3...ance-is-futile
That's Right leftists.....Resistance is Futile. Take that in and filter it thru. Download that to your memory core.
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Originally Posted by Subdermal
