Jay Kuten: New world order Superman shuns US

Flash! Hot off the press! The Daily Planet, that is. Superman is to renounce his American citizenship. That's right, folks. The Man of Steel, whose fight for Truth, Justice and the American Way has been going on since the 1950s believes the world is too small, too connected for him to be seen any longer as an instrument of American foreign policy. Or so he explains to the US president's national security adviser in the new #900 Action Comics.
It began when Superman flew to Iran to stand for a day silently together with protesters there. After 24 hours of a mixed reception, the government of Iran sees Superman as an agent of the United States and feels his action is an act of war. That's what precipitates Superman's going to the UN to renounce his American citizenship.
I know many will be shocked by this change of adherence. After all, Superman has been fighting for Truth Justice and the American Way for more than 50 years. Actually, before the 50s it was simply for truth and justice but during the McCarthy era his writers felt that anyone with a red cape might become a target of investigation, especially as, during the then recent World War II, Superman had actually helped Russians in fighting the Nazis, believing that the Soviets and Americans were allies. To spare embarrassment, Superman began fighting also for the American Way.
Some readers will remember that Superman actually came to earth as a baby in a rocket from the dying planet Krypton, sent by his father, Jor-El. This event occurred a few years before 1938, the first issue of Action comics. The timeline allowed him to grow up in Smallville Kansas in time to fight the Nazis. Some people insist that Jor-El aimed the rocket towards New Zealand, but his glide path was too high on entry; hence, Kansas.
Of course, by any normal reckoning, this would put his birth at somewhere around 1925 and he would, if comic book heroes aged, be 86 this year and might have traded his steel for titanium replacements. But let's not sweat the small stuff.
The real event has been the reaction to all this, particularly among the right-wing talking heads on Fox News. These folks have a history of taking fiction as fact. I'm referring of course, to former Vice-President Dan Quayle, who in addition to spelling potato with a final "e" chastised the sit-com heroine Murphy Brown (played by Candace Bergen) for choosing to forego marriage while bearing a child.
The argument is simple enough. It initially focused on the absence of a birth certificate, but that was soon compounded by the fact that, in entering the US in the way he did, he is clearly an alien. In this way, the controversy has erupted bringing two groups - probably overlapping groups- angrily, suspiciously and conspiratorially together: birthers and the anti-immigration mobs.
It may be remembered that until very recently 25 per cent of Americans and easily 45 per cent of Republicans believed that President Barack Obama was not actually an American by birth. His occupation of the White House has been called into question by no less than The Donald Trump, of reality show fame, and aspiring presidential candidate*.
Release of the long form of Obama's birth certificate quieted doubters for the required intake of breath until they could claim the certificate was Photoshopped.
The same crowd instantly demanded Superman's birth certificate until they remembered two things:
1). His citizenship was honorary, bestowed after World War II along with honorary citizenship by all nations. 2.) He's a comic strip character.
*Trump has by now withdrawn from the presidential race. The Donald didn't want to wait for the people to say, "You're fired!"