Are we genetically hardwired to favor dynasties?
The mind should say no, but, when it cast a vote, the hand says yes.
"The die is cast."?...
Our last election resurrected old dynasties. Not just dynasties, but dynasties we should know better than to resuscitate. The thoughtful voters of California and New York elected Governors named Brown and Cuomo. Brown was a true resurrection from the polyester era. Cuomo is just a timeline continuum from the last 100 years. It included names like Cuomo, Kennedy, Rockefeller and Roosevelt come to mind.
We keep installing the familiar names from the past. As some names pass, Kennedy and Bush, others keep haunting, Brown, Cuomo and (shudder) Clinton.
Nothing is new. They won't just die. Caesar was assassinated, his chosen heir set a long pattern of empire on the road to decline. Charles I lost his head to the short lived Commonwealth period lead by Roundheads, but the Cavaliers returned with Charles II. England still has a Charles in waiting.
So now California and New York have their Hydras with no Hercules in sight.
Tribalism and familiar dominance appears to still be the way of most flesh, but not another Clinton, please.
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