California to reenact the Peloponnesian war?
Looks like the “post-partisan” Arnie has been watching himself in Hercules again reading up on his ancient Greek history. In his annual state of the state address, Arnie said that California is the “modern equivalent of the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta. California has the ideas of Athens and the power of Sparta”.
California has Athens’ ideas of democracy that, we can see, have led to the election of a populist ex-action actor who often struggles to articulate a coherent sentence and probably just like the city state of Athens has seen the sentencing and execution of innocent men (remember Socrates?).
It also has Sparta’s strength, which came through its corrupt military and complete subjugation of it’s citizens in a totalitarian state. Well California may not be quite there on this one, but Arnie clearly has his sights on it. He even referred to California as a “nation-state”. You’ll clearly need an army to achieve that one Arnie. I am so glad he can’t run for President.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:26 am
Before you go on being glad… There have been plenty of rumors about ammending the US constitution so that a foreign-born person can be president. Of course, they don’t mean the illegal, or as a matter of fact, legal, Mexican, Uruguayan, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc. The proposal has him in mind specifically.
We’ve elected actors to the presidency before… and got screwed before. Not that such history would stop us. After all, Reagan did a wonderful job dumming us down…