"...From the day that the legendary Cincinnatus put down his title as military dictator to return to the life of a farmer and allow the republic to function as designed to the day of the Rubicon crossing, there were three and a half centuries of nobility in self-government – a glittering record of human accomplishment and overcoming.
It has been roughly two and a half centuries since George Washington refused the title of king and returned to his farm, marking the beginning of the most impressive episode in human history of virtuous self-government.
During that span we have witnessed the development and the decay of our government institutions as the warnings of the founders have been ignored concerning the sanctity of the Constitution and the need for the separation of powers. By the time Barack Obama was sworn in on a platform of fundamental transformation, the once proud institutions of government, the legislature, and the judiciary had ceased to be a check on the executive power.
The vast executive bureaucracy and its agencies had usurped the role of the once noble branches of a divided government.
The Roman people welcomed Caesar as a liberator just as our urban populations cheered the ascendance of a man who promised a chicken in every pot and a cell phone in every hand.
Soon we will go through the motions of electing a new president, but make no mistake.
This will not be an election as much as it will be a coronation of the next Caesar."
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