Plato: "Wonderful, strong, imposing ..."
Phaedo: "But who are you talking about, exalted teacher?"
Plato: "Of the great Donald, the only real president of the United States. I was moved to see him in the pouring rain at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans' Day ... What posture ... "
Phaedo: "Yes, great master, who defined the American fallen of the First World War as 'losers & suckers'.
Plato: "A lie fabricated by a drug addict who writes for Atlantic, a vile liberal magazine ..."
Phaedo: "Yes, all lies against him ... And what about the fact that he doesn't want to get out of the White House?"
Plato: "He has all the reasons and the right to do so because he was voted on by 72 million Americans; but do you realize, my young bud, what it means to have a consensus audience like this?"
Phaedo: "President-elect Joe Biden surpassed him by almost 6 million in the popular vote ..."
Plato: "But do you want to put how much Trump's votes count? You Social Communists can't compete with a monster of wisdom, energy, foresight like Donald ..."
Phaedo: "Here the accusation of socialism and para-communism is curled. Trumpism has exposed the serious polarization that grips American society ..."
Plato: "The great Donald was able to put himself in direct contact with a large part of public opinion. Do you realise that 55% of American women voted for him, despite all the lies you have created by talking about an alleged misogyny of this great amateur , whose healthy machismo is none other than the reconfirmation of the ancient 'Illa vis grata puellis' of the Ars Amatoria of the great Publius Ovidio Nasone of the 1st century BC .....that is, that 'violence' that women like so much."
Phaedo: "Distinguished teacher, you forget the decades of struggle made by the feminist movements to give women the position and role they deserve in society against male oppression. However, I must admit that I was surprised by the avalanche of votes captured by Donald Trump. But apart from that, his current behavior to challenge Joe Biden's honest and solid victory is now unworthy. "
Plato: "My Phaedo, despite your repeated trips to the United States you still don't understand how politics works there. The Republican GOP party is a machine that runs at full speed from the lowest local level to the federal Supreme Court 365 days every year. The Democrats, on the other hand, are an electoral party that meets on the eve of some political competition and then returns to the absolute inability to break the bread of politics on a daily basis. And in fact, the maneuver to contest the election of Joe Biden responds to a project made weeks before November 3 by Donald Trump and his close associates. "
Phaedo: "So you distinguished teacher justify the fact that for the privileged interest of a person the greatest democracy in the world is being put at risk ..."
Plato: "Silly but fascinating shoot: Donald Trump is using the ravines of the American constitution and, you'll see-you'll see, we will arrive on January 20, 2021 with two presidents competing and this will truly be a great show on a planetary level. Not to mention the support of the militias ... "
Phaedo: "This is already what scares me, illustrious teacher. In the next few days Washington DC, the capital of the USA, will be invaded by thousands of members of the various militias who scrounging the cursed second amendment to the constitution make a title of merit in the appearing in camouflage with weapons of war. Does it tell you anything that your beloved Donald has fired the defense minister, replaced with Yes Men, and is about to behead the intelligence agencies too? Friends who live in Washington called me: they are very worried because the invasion of these idiots will trigger a dangerous reaction from others, especially blacks ... "
Plato: "The road to building a healthy autocracy is not lined with lilies and roses. Blood will probably flow in the streets of American metropolises. But it is a price that must be paid to restore America to the glories of its past. "
Phaedo: "Yours is a macabre prediction that I sincerely hope will not come true thanks to the democratic antibodies of this great nation ..."
Plato: "My dear Phaedo, let me go and check what the virgins are doing to keep the Olympics fire alive. They are all gassed for the mythical Donald and willing to lose their expensive hymen on the spot. I greet you without touching you. because of Covid 19 and I extend my arm in the Roman, Mussolini, Hitlerian and, hopefully soon, Trumpian way. "
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Oscar, caro amico,
Very clever, well done.
When I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I was in a course taught by the great Leo Strauss, focused on a single Platonic dialogue, the Gorgias, in which Socrates explores the art of persuasion as a form of "lying the truth", examined word by word, in English translation and the original Greek.
Un caro saluto, Harold
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Interesting,thank you
Grant R. Berning
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