The Poison of the Isms in a Fragile Democracy

Don't be fooled. The isms have never gone away. They still exist in the minds of some of our leaders.

“Nazism, totalitarianism, socialism, fascism, communism: these are not mere words, not academic abstractions to be debated in sterile halls. They are cancers, and I know real cancers, each a grotesque mutation of human ambition that festers in the body politic, promising salvation while delivering chains.”

Ian Brighthope

Is there only one honest courageo…