Leaning On History To Learn From History

How can history assist us in learning from repeated negative inactions and actions in life, human behavior as well, politics/government(s)?  Even from the story 'Animal Farm'…how their revolution only benefited a selected few and the ironing of that is how that selected few became more and more like their foe in the revolution…the selected few behavior always seem to have ironings that were/are hypocritical.  You know the beauty of the 'Constitution of the United States' is that it protects the interest(s) as well, human rights of the individual from harm by the people.  This adds a new perspective to the meaning of inaction(s) and action(s) on the basis of the majority in general and by (political) party affiliation.  How this concept can be viewed globally too.  The next question might be what have we learned from history?

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