To A President by Walt Whitman
Isn't he a prophet, an awesome poet?
of course, the poem directly called to James Buchanan (Southern camp from pro-slavery states), and the poem still works today, because politicians' usual trick is peddling an illusion, some false pride some sort that planted in our hearts, the mirages, like the exile followers demanding Moses anoint a king for themselves, so God gave them a king because people wanted. and today, the impartiality, rectitude, the great amplitude still the deep rooted problem of the US, if the sum of 1860 slaves and all the anti-slave population compares to the total low income household heads of today, we probably get the same percentage. and we see and hear all those politicians keep selling their lies, yet all they do is seeking, serving and fighting for the interests of the slave owners who can replace any politicians at their freewill with the power of their endorsements. technologies and fashions do change, but the principal and structure of distribution shift its forms like Proteus, the substance is the same. I guess Walt Whitman saw that.
