One of them opined that if DHS wasn't abolished before the coming presidential election it would be too late for the nation. And that DHS and the attitude it embodied was a danger to democracy.
This, I repeat, was flag rank US military officers shooting the breeze nearly 20 years ago. (They're retired by now so if some gestapo hack goes digging for the attendee list that far back they won't get much.)
PS: I wouldn't accept an invitation like that today.
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@cstross Reminds me of this article of Richard Rorty’s from 2004.
> In a worst-case scenario, historians will someday have to explain why the golden age of Western democracy […] lasted only about two hundred years.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n07/richard-rorty/post-democracy #LRB
