I want to make a correction. When I said I hope you learn from our mistakes, I shouldn’t have phrased it that way.

People keep saying we don’t learn from history when we don’t seem to be progressing from authoritarianism. Actually, the people in power are learning from history. They are trying to learn the mistakes of other kings, dictators, or other authoritarian rulers so they can suppress and enslave people.

What I should have said is…as you develop, please develop with compassion, integrity, justice, and a rule of law, not profit, greed, and corruption.