“Bow down” isn’t likening him to an iron-fisted tyrant.
Maybe to the Japanese emperor or a Saudi prince, but not an iron-fisted tyrant.
I learned in RCIA that when we genuflect, we use the right knee. If protocol asks us to kneel to a human (I can’t think of any - even the Queen of England only gets a curtsey) then it is the left knee. Both my knees are sort of creaky and sore so pretty soon I’ll just be bowing.
Yeah like obammy bowing down to that saudi