My father died 10 years ago. He was a child psychiatrist who, in 1956, at age 30, moved to the United States from the UK, where he was born and raised. He was 13 when World War II broke out, and was separated from his parents and evacuated from London because of the Blitz (German bombing).
Suffice to say he was a lifelong fan of Winston Churchill. It didn’t matter that my dad was a lefty, Lib-Dem Jew, and Churchill was a Tory conservative politician. If you survived the Battle of Britain, you probably worshipped Churchill.
It is possibly all for the best that my dad missed the TV series The Crown, about the life of Queen Elizabeth II. That show taught me about Prime Minister Churchill’s horrid reaction to the deadly London smog that killed literally thousands in 1952. If the teleplays are accurate, Churchill’s feeling was that this was simply nature at work, and it would eventually all blow over by itself. Egad — sounds like modern day Goposaurs!
Anyway, that got me thinking about the worship, as it were, of politicians. Daily Kos has taught me that no politician should be unquestionably adulated. They will always do at least one thing that is disappointing, and probably more.
As many of you may know, I kind of worship President Obama. I just freaking love the guy. Maybe it’s genetic? Anyway, I’m at least glad Obama and I are both Democrats, and that he completed his two terms without doing anything I deem to be unforgivable.
What about you? Is there a politician that you ‘worship’?
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