Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering

[David Lockmiller]

(08-12-2022 08:48 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Lincoln used the phrase in his 1842 Temperance Address given to the Springfield Washington Temperance Society. Here is the point in the address where he used it:

"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a "drop of honey → catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of ← honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great high road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause . . . .

China has approved the removal of the two-term limit on the presidency, effectively allowing Xi Jinping to remain in power for life. The constitutional changes were passed by the annual sitting of parliament, the National People's Congress. . . . Two delegates voted against the change and three abstained, out of 2,964 votes.

China had imposed a two-term limit on its president since the 1990s.

Xi Jinping must be almost solid honey. Not even President Abraham Lincoln did that well in the 1864 presidential election.