On Tyranny - first paragraph

"Aristotles warned that inequality brought instability. Plato told us that demagogues exploit Free Speech to set themselves up as tyrants". In the first paragraph of "On Tyranny", by Timothy Snyder.

Short-term

Europe has one year to prepare itself for whatever happens in the US. This is very short, considering all that has not been done in the last 30 years and what is happening in Russia.

Two opposing ideas

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function" - F Scott Fitzgerald

The more I look into the news the more I think this is lacking to the majority of nowadays politicians in the whole world.