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Enlightened statesmen

will not always be at the helm.

--James Madison

Today's Long-Form Quote

John Cleese

My American friends are asking me about President Trump’s observation that the British ‘like him’.

I regret this is quite unfounded.

The explanation for this canard is that Trump is pronoid.

Pronoid is the opposite of paranoid. A paranoid person thinks, without any basis in reality, that everybody is out to get them. A pronoid person is someone who thinks, without any
basis in reality, that everybody likes them.

The fact is that the British loathe Donald Trump.

This is because he is the polar opposite of a ‘ Gentleman ‘, who has qualities the British admire. A fine example is Gareth Southgate.

To the British, a ‘ Gentleman ' is a man who is modest, well-mannered, self deprecating, quietly intelligent, considerate of other people’s feeling, and well-informed.

He is not vulgar, inflated, vain, boastful, noisily ignorant, sleazy and common as muck.

I hope this clears up any confusion.

A Quote

All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again, and rise back up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins - it never will - but that it doesn’t die.

        --John Steinbeck