Having been born in the 60s and living through the cold war it makes me nervous when leaders make their people parade for them.  It may seem like a little thing, but it sends a message that makes my skin crawl.  It is a tad difficult to hear the Prez make fun of a North Korean dictator while it is all to clear that being one has become his obsession.

The symbols can all be interchanged, and the color of the flags varies, but the essentials remain the same.  A man with a hunger for ever increasing power accompanied by an inner circle of “yes men” none of whom care about the people of the country.  It’s so derivative and cliché that it would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.