Biden speech live: president says best way to save US democracy is ‘to pass torch to new generation’
Biden speech live: president says best way to save US democracy is ‘to pass torch to new generation’
Joe Biden tells Americans ‘history is in your hands’ in Oval Office speech that also promises supreme court reform and repeats Kamala Harris endorsement
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A modern day Cincinnatus, the Supreme Court just made him a consul and he just chose to go back to being a common man for the good of the republic.
If this plays out, he’ll go down in history books as the man who sacrificed himself to save Democracy.
144 7 ReplyFun fact, Thomas Jefferson thought of himself a modern day Cincinnatus, and mused romantically about going back to his farm.
He was famously terrible at farming. The fact stops being fun here and gets real dark real fast.
72 0 ReplyThe fact stops being fun here and gets real dark real fast.
Like Jefferson's family tree!
48 0 ReplyHis slaves were great at it though. Because if they weren’t… well… you can guess.
20 0 ReplyYeah well, not like he was the one toiling in his fields.
12 0 ReplyHe was probably envious of the very flattering way Washington was described as a Cincinnatus.
You know, a guy who actually gave up a chance at seizing power over a fledgling democracy, multiple times, just because it would make him look bad.*
*I know "His Excellency" was not a great guy, let's skip the rant this time
11 0 ReplyHe was!
He compared himself to Cincinnatus as he stepped away from governing Virginia, which he was also famously terrible at. So this was prior to Washington stepping down.
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