We as a people have allowed the office of President to become an elected monarchy. It did not start with Obama. No other freely elected leaders around the world get the full imperial treatment as our Presidents have gotten in my lifetime. One aspect of this trend that should be truly offensive to any small r republican is the office of the First Lady. The spouse of the President should have no role period, but we have created our own form of a queen consort. Presidents of the 18th and 19th centuries had a sense of their standing as set out by the Founders, but that has been all lost with our modern monarchy. We can point fingers at Obama for this, while the leftists respond with Nixon, but the truth is that we as a people have been guilty of creating this affront to the Founders. We have acquiesced to the trappings of monarchy.
We as a people have allowed the office of President to become an elected monarchy. It did not start with Obama. No other freely elected leaders around the world get the full imperial treatment as our Presidents have gotten in my lifetime. One aspect of this trend that should be truly offensive to any small r republican is the office of the First Lady. The spouse of the President should have no role period, but we have created our own form of a queen consort. Presidents of the 18th and 19th centuries had a sense of their standing as set out by the Founders, but that has been all lost with our modern monarchy. We can point fingers at Obama for this, while the leftists respond with Nixon, but the truth is that we as a people have been guilty of creating this affront to the Founders. We have acquiesced to the trappings of monarchy.
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You have said this SO WELL, thanks!