The Brando character (The Godfather) memorably tells his successor: “Keep your friends close; but keep your enemies closer.”
Today Western Civilization would not know how to follow that advice because it is so corrupt in its Ruling Class that it confuses WHO are its True Friends and WHO are its True Enemies.
Whatever is convenient THEY choose and the Legacy Media shuts down all real verbal challenge.
The CCP and Saudi Arabia annually spend hundreds of millions of dollars legally Lobbying our government. Muslim Brotherhood Qatar has been caught sending EU professional politicians home with suitcases filled with cash – but no one, on either side of the graft, seems to ever be held accountable. Thanks to the perpetually anti-Civilization pro-Hard-Left Islamic Alliance Legacy Media, not one out of a thousand American voters has the slightest suspicion of the Truth that I just revealed.
I wonder what The Godfather would say about today’s Ruling Class and Legacy Media. It seems to me that The Godfather had more integrity, decency and respect for Civilization than the Educated Classes that rule over the majority of feckless common citizens in western civilization today.