I can’t decide if the Senate confirmation of Geithner is more like the refusal of the Roman Senate to demand enforcement of the Agrarian Laws or its refusal to try the assassins of the Gracchi.
Either way, Spengler was right—this is the dawning of the Age of Caesars
The fact that Geithner father, Peter worked with Obama
s mother through the Ford Foundation boggles the mind but, explains alot.
there seems to be a tie between the Geithner family and the Obama family that goes back more than 20 years ago. Apparently, Timothy Geithner’s father, Peter Giethner, is the Director of the Ford Foundation’s Asian program, a role he has been involved in for years. In the 1980’s, Peter Geithner oversaw Ford Foundation’s microfinance programs in the Indonesia region. These programs were being developed by Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro…… Barack Obama’s mother! It certainly is a very small world, or was Obama reaching back to make a special thank you to someone who worked with his mother.
No this is the dark before that dawn. It's more like the early 1st C. B.C. - on the cusp of the reaction to all that Gracchan and Marian redistributive "socialist" politics - the rise of Sulla!
In truth, I think we're a decade away from Sulla, and a couple of generations away from Caesar.(Sulla will look a lot like Caesar - perhaps a sort of historical fore-shadowing)