Thousands of local governments in the Roman Empire took care of local business. No one gave a serious thought to universal business because that belonged to imperial ministers and the emperor. Political life was exciting and free only when an emperor died or was assassinated. The selection of a new emperor could be a short and peaceful business or else long and bloody but a new emperor was always found who continued ruling universally. It is the same in Washington as in Rome. It is less exciting and necessarily bloodless until a new emperor arrives. Hillary Clinton as emperor will have no more a single care for America than a Roman Emperor had a care only for Italy. Donald Trump tells us Americans that he will be a president only for us. Many of us will vote for him but none of us believe him. Hillary Clinton has the support of the rich and the powerful who are worried not about the state of America but the state of the world. Presidents used to run for office telling us that prosperity was just around the corner. It is but around our corner now means also the rest of the world. We are all of us everywhere in every state worldwide in this together. Washington takes care of the universal business that must be taken care of to guarantee a path to worldwide peace and prosperity. Hillary Clinton occasionally refers to the worldwide responsibilities she will have as president amid the generalized and false promises she makes to us about improving our lives in America economically. She talks enough positive talk to make herself emperor. She and her ministers will govern the world universally as in Roman times. We will elect her democratically and then go back to ruling the state we live in democratically while for four years a new emperor will make decisions for the world that are imperial rather than democratic.
Daniel McNeill
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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected
and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
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