Caesarian Rule: "Do as I say, not as I do."
The Obama rule, like their modern era predecessors, is virtually as ambitious and seedy as any of the Roman Empire's various Caesars, and any complaining that they do about the general state of the world is about as cynical as a surprised crook's rationalizations when nabbed by the police. For instance, essentially admitting that they were violating the computers of various countries, while at the same time acting sanctimoniously when these or other countries do something of the same nature or a similar scale. And generally speaking, trying to reorder the world, rather undemocratically, to their particular tastes and likes, but bringing nothing but more disorder and chaos to everything they touch. However, since they think of themselves as Caesar, they are surprised when anybody suggests that any contemplative analysis of general similarities between nations could conceivably bring about some mitigating self-reflection or have a moderating effect on all parties.
After all, how dare citizens question Caesar's actions when he is acting for the good of the empire, or more specifically, the empire's gentry, and bringing "democracy" to the world (hee hee hee). Never mind that the citizens of the District of Columbia still can't get a vote in Congress after 225 years, and that's just one of a host of "never minds" regarding democracy in America. Meanwhile, while Caesar, by virtual default, turns into the fictional Gulliver (Gulliver's Travels), and is tied down by the burdens of empire, and they are getting more burdensome by the day, as that's a part of being an empire, after all, there is a kind of contrived amazement by the regime and general dismay by the citizenry that elects this one-party government time and again. What did we expect? Did not Jesus say, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's?"
[First posted on Commoner on 1/19/15; revised on 11/7/15.]
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