We do not know who will take the inaugural oath come January. Or who will head the various federal intelligence agencies or the Congressional oversight committees. But:
What we know is that the people in charge will possess the capacity to be tyrants -- to use power oppressively and unjustly -- to a degree that Americans in 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, or 2000 could've scarcely imagined. To an increasing degree, we're counting on having angels in office and making ourselves vulnerable to devils. Bush and Obama have built infrastructure any devil would lust after.
James Madison understood the danger more than 200 years ago:
Now go and read the whole source article of the above paragraph, "All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama."
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