I am a citizen of the United States and I am fascinated with the whole concept of WATCHING AMERICA. I am a registered Democrat but I am closer to a democratic Socialist. After listening to excerpts of President Obama's immigration crisis speech last night, I was reminded of President Kennedy's eloquence back in 1962 when he supported the black civil rights movement against the then benighted American South. Civil Rights won!
No, I don't think Obama is "politically used up" at all. In fact, right now he is more representative of the American People than the new Republican dominated House and Senate.
They call him "Emperor Obama" now. But I can see a parallel in ancient Roman history. Was not the dictator Julius Caesar more representative of the Roman People than those proud ,snobby, and arrogant members of the decadent Senate of Rome? To be sure, the rotten Old Republic was doomed. A hundred greedy, squabbling aristocrats could not effectively rule an empire.
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An unusual depiction – “Julius Caesar"
by Andrea di Pietro di Marco Ferrucci (1465–1526)
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Can our ONE PERCENT plutocracy still rule America -even indirectly? Let "Emperor Obama" call out the mob. For real Democracy- true MAJORITY RULE- it just might be "morning in America" again. President Obama just might be the unconscious and even naïve agent of the impish force of History –and not necessarily "The Imp of the Perverse" (Poe). Or am I too seduced by "The Audacity of Hope" (Obama)?
(WATCHING AMERICA commentary, "Landslide with Limited Consequence", published in Neue Zurcher Zeitung ( Switzerland, Nov.5 , 2014 )
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