  The Stalin Moment of America’s Nomenklatura  For those
Americans planning to inflict the president’s State of the Union
Speech [SOTUS] upon their eyes, ears, and cerebra, some
historical information and international comparison are in
order. Article II, Section 3 of our deceased Constitution
prescribes that the president "shall from time to time give the
Congress information of the State of the Union…"  In the
American republic’s benighted pre-empire period, the chief
executive construed this provision to mean that he should
arrange a written message to be delivered to his fellow
wardheelers at the opposite end of Pennsylvania Avenue. While
this sufficed for men of small vision who did not share Bill
Kristol’s hallucinations of National Greatness, it was obvious
that changes were required as the twentieth century dawned. Our
first messianic president, a man truly suited to the nascent
empire, was Woodrow Wilson. It was he who determined that the
message should be delivered in person by the God-Emperor himse