Lilliput or America – who has a better way to choose its leaders?
Across the gulf of three centuries, Jonathan Swift’s insights provide another perspective on America. His observations, cloaked in metaphor, deserve attention. The following is an excerpt from Gulliver’s Travels, Chapter 3: A Voyage to Lilliput — where Gulliver learns how the King’s officers and advisers are chosen. (source). The Lilliputians, being of a civilization less advanced than our own, …
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