Abused By Illusions

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.
Cicero Marcus Tullius - Born on January 3, 106 BC and was murdered on December 7, BC

The question is do we as a nation still have the cognizance to recognize the traitors within the gates and the fortitude to endure the hardships that will surely be incurred when their treason is illuminated for all to see?

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