U.S. Politics as Tragedy
EIR, Vol. 30, No. 39, October 10, 2003, pages 24-29.
This commentary was issued by the Presidential candidate’s campaign committee, LaRouche in 2004.
“ ‘That we are underlings,’. . . Julius Caesar’s role is changing history; Brutus and Cassius are reacting in the interpersonal small, while the unseen Cicero, like the Queen in Schiller’ s Don Carlos, speaks prophetically, as if off-stage, of the principle bearing upon the universality of that time, whose violation defines the tragedy as a whole. Today, we have silly self-styled candidates for President, with morals and minds which often seem to be as small as those of gnats, with no sense of the peril of our republic.”