Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

