Today's MOZEN: Beware the ides of March

La Mort de César (ca. 1859–1867) by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Caesar:
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
Cry "Caesar!" Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.

Soothsayer:
Beware the ides of March.

Caesar:
What man is that?

Brutus:
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.

Julius Caesar Act 1, scene 2, 15–19

How prefect.

Today is indeed the ides of March - just 2000 years later. The 15th of the month. The half-way point. It is also Super Tuesday, i.e. the day that can make or break a candidate's quest for his party's nomination for President of the United States.

And, as in ancient Rome, the Republic is in jeopardy - endangered by greedy men who seek to usurp the power of the people. And, there is one, who like the Caesar of Shakespeare, looks to stand above the rest:

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world

Like a Colossus, and we petty men

Walk under his huge legs and peep about

To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

These words were uttered by Cassius to Brutus to describe what he saw as Caesar's enormous ego and why he just had to go. The same thing could be said of today's GOP front runner, Donald Trump.

Trump has the swagger and the bombast of 1000 Julius Caesars without any of the redeeming social values. Caesar may have been arrogant but at least he earned it! He was a warrior who conquered most of the known world! Trump is the master of an empire built on smoke and mirrors.  Unlike Caesar he is All Show and No Go.

So, indeed, beware the Ides of March. Look not to the stars for answers but within yourselves - YOU have the power - it's called a VOTE. USE  IT. 

DUMP TRUMP!