The internets vs. the Glorious President-for-Life
August 21st, 2007Will the internet and social media defeat top-down conservatism?
We are fast becoming a bottoms up media society where all the information people need to make informed decisions is becoming more readily available to them. With the power of YouTube or Google or a simple website, you can learn all that you would never have learned years ago. And this is devastating news for conservatives.
Imagine what would have happened in 1968 or 1972 if the media had done its job and played the video or audio clips of Richard Nixon’s McCarthyist rantings?
Well, maybe… other circles are using the internet to argue for, um… less than Democratic ideals
President Bush has a valuable historical example that he could choose to follow.
When the ancient Roman general Julius Caesar was struggling to conquer ancient Gaul, he not only had to defeat the Gauls, but he also had to defeat his political enemies in Rome who would destroy him the moment his tenure as consul (president) ended.
Caesar pacified Gaul by mass slaughter; he then used his successful army to crush all political opposition at home and establish himself as permanent ruler of ancient Rome. This brilliant action not only ended the personal threat to Caesar, but ended the civil chaos that was threatening anarchy in ancient Rome – thus marking the start of the ancient Roman Empire that gave peace and prosperity to the known world.
If President Bush copied Julius Caesar by ordering his army to empty Iraq of Arabs and repopulate the country with Americans, he would achieve immediate results: popularity with his military; enrichment of America by converting an Arabian Iraq into an American Iraq (therefore turning it from a liability to an asset); and boost American prestiege while terrifying American enemies.
He could then follow Caesar’s example and use his newfound popularity with the military to wield military power to become the first permanent president of America, and end the civil chaos caused by the continually squabbling Congress and the out-of-control Supreme Court.
President Bush can fail in his duty to himself, his country, and his God, by becoming “ex-president” Bush or he can become “President-for-Life” Bush: the conqueror of Iraq, who brings sense to the Congress and sanity to the Supreme Court. Then who would be able to stop Bush from emulating Augustus Caesar and becoming ruler of the world? For only an America united under one ruler has the power to save humanity from the threat of a new Dark Age wrought by terrorists armed with nuclear weapons.
Fear not, the former head of the CIA and associate of Dick Cheney is… on the Board of Directors of the organization that published this essay. Why are they so busy scrubbing their site? Don’t they need support for the Glorious Plan? Or would too much discussion of it just botch things up?