http://www.salon.com/2014/02/15/ted_cruzs_imperialist_fantasy_why_his_latest_anti_obama_epithet_is_so_dangerous/
In the wake of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, Sen. Ted Cruz now insists that Americans are living under an “imperial presidency” because of the way that the Affordable Care Act has been implemented.Cruz seems to like the way that “imperial presidency” sounds when it comes out of his mouth — and the fear of an “emperor” in the White House is a motif that may resound with the Tea Party Republicans who might have a large say in deciding the Republican nominee for the presidency.
one thing Blacks are still not at an equal pace as it's White constituents one just needs to look back at the disrespect demeaning attacks by republicans before day one.
look now at their voter suppression agenda, now look even further back when my people were slaves and rated as 3/5ths of a human, that little ditty IMO was just to ease the conscious of what they wee doing.
now that said and given the stranglehold they still have do you really think they would let Pres. the Black guy become a self appointed king, dictator, or imperial anything? contrivances by the republicans to scare and stir of the base, and none of it is true, except their contrivance.
However, much like the wildly inaccurate "socialist" epithet that Tea Party elites attempted to attach to Obama during his first term, the idea of the president as an emperor is equally problematic. We would do well to remember that if anyone knew a thing or two about imperialism,it was the ancient Romans and those who lived under their dominion. When the Roman Empire approached its zenith in the middle of the second century A.D., the Greek orator Aelius Aristides authored words that should resound in contemporary discourses about American "imperialism."In a remarkably prescient analysis, Aristides in his oration 'To Rome" observed that the regularity of wars, compounded with their distance from Rome and the cultural and ethnic otherness of enemies, made wars into "myths" that "no longer seem real."Amazingly, this was written at a time when Rome was awash in the apparent rewards of empire: widespread peace, security and the smug sense of superiority that comes with imagining your state and culture as the world's patron.
they did pattern our gov't after the Roman template wonder why Cruz didn't equate Pres. to Caesar? they have called him so many things they can't keep up but one thing is for sure they were all racially bigoted lies by insecure and scared of their own inefficiencies that they can only lie and deceive in order to gain a false control over the people, sure they cam make laws, try to buy their way in but the last 5 years has proven that it is no longer a given. ps and deathly afraid of women.
dangerous only because there are those who without thought support this rhetoric are they just as insecure as he that they will follow anybody and consequently anything.
