"The notorious Russian leader, Vladimir Lenin once observed “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” Across the world, in every nation, the past seven months have brought decades worth of changes. Responses to a global pandemic have been as widely varied as we have cultures, languages, economies and political systems. Unfortunately, in too many places unethical and avaricious leaders have seized on the crisis to expand autocracies. The following article explores those trends. We resist. At the Precinct we never lose sight of one iron law - immutable and unchanged by any crisis. Deep in the soul of every human lies an unquenchable thirst for freedom and personal liberty."
