Everyone is a king, no one has a crown: the experience and reflection of the protagonist of ideals and dreams, the prototype of Hugh Iran

Joy 2022-01-14 08:01:35

Willie Stark of "The Kings", Huey Long in real life, the unforgettable man in the history of the United States and Louisiana, The KINGFISH, the star of American politics in the 1920s and 1930s, they said he was a populist, they said he was red neck, they said he was a hillbilly, nothing is him. He conquered the hearts of the people with speeches, won the governor's seat with votes, swept silverfish from the table of interest with an iron hand, and invited the people to come up and share the food they deserve to build roads. , Build bridges, build hospitals and schools, educate people at low prices, eliminate illiteracy, and implement the SHARE THE WEALTH plan to share social wealth: impose heavy taxes on the rich and limit inheritance taxes; establish a minimum wage and family subsistence allowances-taking the first place in the nation’s welfare system step. He crossed the constitution, raised the parliament, took over the power of the state, and formed a private guard. He was a socialist, an idealist (although KR made him an authoritarian democracy), but he used dirty hands to do the right thing. Can the people accept anti-democratic means to achieve the promised democracy? The people have the right to push him up, to smash the elites, to establish the system and all groups that maintain inequality... But what if he becomes the domineering and blessing in the future? When the gun pointed at the old bureaucracy is pointed at the people one day, when the petty profits that the old capital used to be used to once again be thrown in front of the people as bait, what should the people do? Introducing another little Huey Long? We need a Huey Long, but what we need is a Huey Long that can return power to the people; just as we need a vanguard, we need a vanguard that can be disbanded by the people after a victory and return the fruits of gm to the people. When we begin to think about power and rights, it is not difficult to find that power always corrupts people's hearts. We will question whether this entire power system is necessary. At this time, it took the first step towards Anaki-Communism.

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All the King's Men quotes

  • Willie Stark: Time brings all things to light, I trust it so.

  • Jack Burden: The friend of your youth is the only friend you'll ever have. For he doesn't really see you. He sees in his mind a face which doesn't exist anymore, speaks a name... Spike, Bud, Red, Rusty... Jack... that belongs to that now nonexistent face. He's still the young idealist you used to be, still sees good and bad in black and white and men as sinners or saints but never both and feels superior in the knowledge that you no longer can distinguish the two. That's what drives you to it. To try to stick the knife in. There is a kind of snobbery in failure like the twist to the mouth of a drunk.