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Well that dived in a comedic direction I didn't expect
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My thanks to everyone for their faith in my ability to string a sentence or two together on a matter that is, really, none of my direct business :tup:. Please forgive any clumsiness in execution as, yet again, the lateness of the hour inpinges badly upon my eloquence and logic
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By in large, you have a candidate on hand already who would be very good for your country's longer term future, if he had the years in office to do it - Ron Paul. He has some things in his 'deck' that I don't think bode so well but economically he's got his head screwed on.
In terms of 'fantasy', you need a President who sees clearly that the concept of Empire is an outmoded one that cannot work in the 21st Century. That also means that you, as a people, have to accept that you can no longer support your lifestyles by leeching off the rest of the world.
I know that there is a commonly bantered about view that America is the richest country on the planet and benefits other nations with her largesse. This is a vision that is hard to pin down the origin of as it is founded on 'facts' that are demonstrably untrue and are at best a hangover from pre-war days when true industry still existed in the 'developed' world.
The primary fantasy is the 'wealth' aspect. America is essentially bankrupt, propped up by imaginary money and unimaginable debts. Any President that will do you any good in the much longer term has to deal with this. The main way to achieve this is return control of the money supply into government hands and severly curtail, if not outright abolish, fractional reserve banking based upon a fictional currency.
Further, he/she has to be able to see that using military might, especially that funded by debt, to enforce your image of how things should be upon the world, is a doomed enterprise. Also, he has to be able to concede that
forcing compliance with a capitalist democratic doctrine is a non sequitur.
Such an idealistic President has to be able to re-inspire the American people and those that govern them to actually
run their country by the principles enshrined in the Constitution rather than just pay lip-service to it it when it suits them. This means having a true Republic again rather than a supposed Democracy that is merely the puppet of the richest business interests of the day.
To achieve such a radical sea-change, this ideal President has to be possessed primarily with great charisma and the ability to get over to the voting public that the way things have been for nearly a century is not the way that the Founding Fathers anticipated. Empire is not possible and isolationsim is not practicable in the current global climate, so America's leader has to be able to enter into negotiations with the other nations of the world as a
partner rather than a bully or a xenophobe.
The final attribute this person will need, is to be able to see that dealing with the ecological changes amassing due to profligate squandering of resources is the one major concern that makes all others moot. He will need to persuade all that without balancing the resource 'book' then every other endeavour is merely a re-arrangement of the oncoming disaster. This does not necessarily mean a retreat into an Amish-like way of life but does mean serious development of alternative energy resources, including Nuclear Fusion and a determined effort to expand our presence off-planet. Technological solutions do exist to deal with the 'doom' we have written for ourselves as a species and seizing that path is one of the greatest legacies a leader could have.
As I said earlier, fairly off-the-wall and outrageous sounding opinions given the present situation in the world. But the question was what positions and attributes would form the image of an ideal next President of the United States and those 'big picture' issues are the ones that, to me, are the ones that really need to be dealt with.
