I would implement my financial plan.
I would implement this IRS eradication plan.
I would make it so no one who doe not pay taxes has the right to vote. My reasoning should be obvious: to contain the problems first seen by the Greeks well over 2,000 years ago, and which are equally obvious today.
I would require everyone over the age of 16 who wanted to vote to read certain books and pass tests demonstrating understanding of the content. The first two would be “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” and “The Black Book of Communism”, so as to teach the perils and methods of different types of Fascism.
They would read the passages in Keynes General Theory where he admits his aim is fascism, learn about his cultural milieu and close connection to the Fabian fascists, and read Henry Hazlitt’s refutation of Keynes in “Economics in one easy lesson”.
They would read “The Fatal Conceit”, Paul Johnson’s History of the American People, Thomas Sowell’s “Basic Economics”.
They would read Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” followed by another text detailing the many factual errors, exaggerations, and omissions in that text. Actually, it might work best if an annotated version were created, so that the truth and the errors are shown side by side. To this we could perhaps add a Chomsky text, and an anti-Chomsky reader. This would work to teach people that bullshit can appear to make perfect sense.
Anyone attending college would be required to read Jacques Ellul’s Propagandas to graduate.
They would be specifically taught the truth about our chosen abandonment of the Vietnamese people, and what it meant for them and the region in general.
They would read both the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist papers.
They would be required to demonstrate an understanding of the Constitution.
I would fund schools and teachers to do all this teaching.
We would IMMEDIATELY protect our energy grid from an EMP. Why this has not been done is a mind-numbing mystery I prefer not to visit too often.
I would provide MASSIVE funding for research into psi, the survival of death, and all associated fields. Atheism and materialism are counter-scientific belief systems, and their prevalence in the sciences is one of the reasons for the pervasive failures in the Humanities.
I would abolish most of the Federal government, gradually, giving States time to take up the slack and set up their own apparatus to retain what programs they saw fit. I would get rid of most of Homeland Security nearly immediately.
I would retain most of our Navy carrier groups, and the Marine Corps, but otherwise downsize the standing military, while requiring the States to create the ability to provide trained units on demand. I would strongly encourage them to create some form of compulsory service to grow kids the fuck up through difficulty, either military, or search and rescue.
I would reduce the NSA to two levels of connection. No more open net spying. I would massively increase the CIA’s HumInt capabilities (after a thorough audit of both agencies–and the FBI–to see how much bullshit they have been getting away with, and firing as many people as I needed to).
I would build an effective missile shield.
All of this would represent a very good start. I have other ideas, too, but do not want to share them at the moment.
What would be left after two years would be a system again highly resistant to demagogues and tyranny.