Modern dynasties

It’s almost ironical how government controlled by families or close buddies is coming back into fashion these days. Years ago we had the kings and queens of England or France, the Emperors of Austria, China or Russia. Our ancestors experienced how bad and corrupt these were and eventually kicked them out of power. Today, we seem to have forgotten all of that and we’re replacing these despotic forms of government with family dynasties, starting with Bush, including our current president, his dad and perhaps down the line his brother Jebb. Soon, if we don’t watch, we might get Clinton II if we follow Argentina’s example of Nestor and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Eva and Juan Perón . I’m not even talking about the Castro brothers, Hosni grooming Gamal Mubarak or including Putin and his new surrogate Medvedev in that discussion. I don’t know about you, but I hate these seemingly hereditary or marital forms of governments. I think it’s a both a lousy and idiotic idea and I fault voters for not even seeing that and putting these nepotistic folks in power.