How the Mighty Have Fallen

How the Mighty Have Fallen

Dynasties, much like indigestion or honesty in the Obama administration, tend to come and go.

Egypt recorded no fewer than 31 dynasties, China a paltry 13, and even Somalia, Tonga, Myanmar, and dozens of other nations and regions have weighed in with their minimalist dynastic periods.

The United States, by virtue of our democratic republican form of government and sense of political values, has always looked askance at the concept of one family exercising prolonged rule, except maybe on the local level of late.

What some call America’s first family and others call America’s royalty, the Kennedys, epitomized by patriarch Joe and his three sons, are the closest we’ve come to anything approximating a national dynasty with various members in politics countrywide.

The Clintons would love to follow suit but needed more progeny, and more class, to get anywhere, dynastic-wise.

A local dynasty founded by former Democratic Congressman William Jennings Jefferson rose out out of the New Orleans Bayou to become a Jeffersonian dynasty which recently has met its Waterloo on the Bayou.

That Jeffersonian Dynasty was never much of a dynasty by Egyptian and Chinese standards, . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1328)