A French king, I think it was one of the Louies, said that a long time ago. It literally translates as "The state it is me.", but "I am the state" comes closer to the way we would say it in English. I agree with Old Dog's article from USA Today that it wasn't supposed to be that way in our country. Our president was supposed to be more of an administrator than a monarch, which is why we refer to a president's term of office as his administration rather than his reign. I also agree that one of the driving forces of the evolution of the presidency has been mass communication media. One reason they set up the electoral college was that, in those days, the average citizen knew more about local issues and personalities than he did about national ones. Nowadays, we know more about the president than we do about our congressmen, and we know even less about our county and township boards. In big cities like Chicago, everybody knows who their mayor is, but how many could name their alderman or city council members?
Venezuela is still socialist? I thought they had a regime change awhile back, but maybe it was just a turnover in leadership. I also thought that Russia renounced socialism back in 1990 but, as we have discussed before, Russia is still Russia.
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