I can’t figure out whether Zer0 is Nero or Caligula just yet. Can you?
I think Obama is Nero (young and inexperienced, obsessed with parties). Clinton was Caligula (sexually promiscuous, replaced by a guy with a speech impediment).
Nero, of course, famously presided over the destruction, partly by fire, of Rome.
Just after Nero’s death came a short civil war known as “the year of the four emperors.”
So, the real question to me is: who are our Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian?
Actually, I think Obama is Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, the reformer in the late republic who instituted the idea that the masses could be bought for votes using the lure of free grain for bread. Gaius Gracchus also was involved in distributing land from the rich to the poor, and wanted to extend Roman citizenship to any Roman ally. He was killed by the Senate, but his reforms led to the Social War of 90 B.C.
Sadly, it looks like Obama’s reforms might just outlive him, in the same way as the reforms of Gaius Gracchus, and those reforms will lead to enormous civil discontent.
Obama is just a foreshadow of what could be. It isn’t a pretty shadow.
Commodus..