I’ve got this great idea for a book; it is full of action, intrigue, double-dealing and power-mongering. It starts off with a virtually unknown politician that has been in government for only a short time, running for high office as a dark horse. He lies, cheats and bullies his way to the top, along with his equally ambitious and power hungry wife; and by using the most modern methods available, mesmerizes the young American public while negotiating the most complicated political deal of all time, even by Chicagoan standards.
He makes promises to union thugs, power brokers, lobbyists and beltway insiders, and shoves and pushes his way into power by any and all means at his disposal. His campaign finances become so cumbersome and intricate that no one can possibly discern where most of the massive campaign funds in his coffers come from, much less if they are legal. He negotiates for campaign dollars with corrupt dictators in unfriendly countries, promising to look the other way when he comes to power, while bowing and scraping at their hems.
Little has anyone noticed that the virtually unknown Presidential candidate has been spending his younger years being schooled by the brightest and best of radicals, learning at the knee of some of the most violent liberals ever put on God’s green earth. He had bid his time, he knew his day would come; he plotted and planned, but he never got his hands dirty, so he left no trail.
He creates a personality cult that places his face on every surface and every web page on the internet, branding a magic word (perhaps this word could be “Different”, or “Change”??) , easily found in Webster’s Dictionary, but the lulling manner in which he employs it leaves all enthralled.
As the campaign ensues, he tramples the other major candidate, weak and unassuming, and his star rises quickly. He makes few unscripted remarks, and is always on point. He is elegant, poised. He says all the right things; he plays all sides of the game.
Come Election Day, he is elected as the next President of The United States. Immediately he begins his evil plot to subvert the American Constitution and to wreak revolution from within. He plans his Cabinet, but few can make the grade; even his Party controlled Senate has problems with the cronies he wishes to appoint. In order to get around this not so small problem, he appoints an Orwellian-like cabinet that answers to none but him. He gets cocky, he can say or do anything and no one seems to notice. He spends the next several generations of Americans into poverty with self serving projects that pay back his political debts and extend power to himself and his Party into the foreseeable future, only within a few short months of coming to power.
His plan is insidious; (I hate to give the plot away, but here it goes)-
a. He creates class warfare by pitting capitalists against the governmentally entitled, the wealthy against the poor,even white against black.
b. He cunningly nationalizes the largest financial institutions and businesses; the plan unfolds as set up by him and his cronies previously using Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
c. He creates burdensome taxes and laws that destroy the economy and unemployment runs amuck.
d. He thumbs his nose at our allies with small gestures that seem innocuous at the time.
e. He embraces our enemies by cow-towing to them and visiting them at their palaces in their respective Oligarchies, paying obeisance for past and future favors.
f. He creates terror within the borders by releasing Islamic Terrorists onto American soil that were previously held for high crimes and misdemeanors in an offshore white collar prison.
g. A self-fulfilling tragedy of Biblical proportions ensues, thus allowing the President to instigate martial law.
h. Along with his lawless Orwellian cabinet, he takes control of the military, the internet and all productive facilities in the name of Public Safety; suspends the Constitution as well as Habeas Corpus. All power rests in him and a few Party elite.
i. Thus things are“Different"(or should we use Change(d)?, you decide). Perhaps a better name would be “What Audacity!”. Let me know what you think. SueAnn