Back when former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin styled himself "Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular", many folks rightly saw it as kooky talk.
But as becomes more apparent with each passing day, the same dubious reaction should greet the US government's self-identification as a "democracy" - a meaningless euphemism that serves as a front for a blissfully plutocratic system.
And while most of us are presumably aware, on some level, of the relationship between obscene wealth and political power, it's always helpful to have the arrangement clearly spelled out. READ MORE AT AL JAZEERA ENGLISH.