What if a Career Criminal Stole the Presidency to Loot the Nation?

Your support keeps me going, I really appreciate you!Hello friends,In the interest of preserving democracy, I thought I'd address a hypothetical scenario so we could brainstorm an appropriate response. Again, this is nothing more than a mental exercise and it is not intended to bear any resemblance to any actual events.For the sake of argument, let's consider what would happen if a career criminal managed to cheat his way into the white house.I don't want to waste time discussing crazy conspiracy theories or indulge in the topic of election fraud. I want to go past that. Put all the complex arguments out of your mind and just consider the reality of a career criminal as president.What would that look like?Because this is a national security issue, we should imagine the very worst possible example of a human being. This would be a pathological liar. He'd be a rapist. He'd be a con artist. He would be physically, sexually, and emotionally abusive.Worst of all, he wouldn't have a shred of empathy.This would be the type of person who would disregard the deaths of children in order to go golfing or some such nonsense. He'd spend all his time using his wealth and power to crush anyone who ever came forth with accusations about his crimes. This kind of desperate retribution would serve a dual purpose. It would eliminate the immediate threat, and it would dissuade any of his other victims from coming forward.We're talking about the very worst possible human being here. This guy would be a scum-sucking malignant monster incapable of even the most basic act of decency. He'd be a walking lie defiling the air of every room that he entered.The absolute lowest of the low.The ultimate loser, a skid mark on the pages of history.Imagine if something like that came to power. It would be pretty awful wouldn't it? I mean, as divided as the United States is we should all be able to agree that if a career criminal, child rapist, con artist, monster came to power that would be bad.Are you with me so far? We agree that would be bad?But then the question becomes, what would he do? What motivates a person like that? What kind of legacy would they build for themselves.When you stop and think about it, the answer is pretty scary. A person who rapes children and steals from everyone he crosses paths with doesn't care about the future. In fact, in that situation, you get a snowballing effect of pure evil.You'd get a perpetual state of new crimes followed by new cover ups. The trouble is that the cover ups also entail new crimes. There would be larger and larger populations of victims. It would go through a period of exponential growth until, eventually, the whole world had felt the sting of the monster's lash.At that point there could be no more cover-ups because everybody on the planet would have experienced the monster's abuses directly.But I'm getting ahead of myself. That's the end scenario, although with exponential growth the end is always closer than you can anticipate. As the circle of abuse continues to expand, the count down clock also begins to accelerate.Still, in that space between seizing power and the eventual downfall, what kind of behavior would the monster demonstrate? It's kind of interesting to think about, and we can probably all reflect on our own experiences to get a concept of his mental state.I can attest that I'm far from a perfect person. There have been times in my life where I've made mistakes. Naturally, whenever you make a mistake your initial fight or flight reaction compels you to try to avoid accountability.“Nobody can ever know about this.”For example, when I was about 10, I was tossing a ball in my aunt's house and I accidentally broke a light fixture. Quickly, I put the light fixture under the bed. Then I thought about it and realized my best course of action was to come clean. So, I went and told on myself.The same thing probably happened to the monster, but he made the first choice that would send him on his way to the white house. He kept quiet. He didn't practice accountability.Unlike the monster, I didn't grow up with a maid. In my case, my aunt would have found the fixture eventually. In the case of the monster, a maid would have found it. That would be somebody he could bully. Even at 10, monsters can bully the hired help. So, he probably made her take responsibility and then got her fired to eliminate the problem. Having determined bullying was an effective way to overcome difficulty, he'd embark on larger and more terrible acts of abuse.What quickly becomes obvious is that power is the key to all this. If you don't have power, you can't bully anyone. I suspect this is why rich people can never get their hands on enough. It doesn't matter if it's 10 million, or a billion, or 10 billion, or a hundred billion.They need more, more, more!That's because instead of gathering up a financial debt like the rest of us who have to pay for things like education and healthcare, the monster accrues a spiritual debt. It's a debt of accountability.In the same way we can go through our daily lives not thinking of the tens of thousands of dollars we owe, the monster goes through his daily life not thinking about all the people he's hurt. He might be aware that the pain is out there, but he laughs. “What are they going to do about it?”Still, the concern is present, and it compels him to gather up more power all the time.So, you'd see how a person like that might eventually set his sights on the presidency. That's an attainable seat of power that offers him the ability to control the economic and military might of the United States.That's money and power that's supposed to serve the people of our nation. But, a monster who is constantly fleeing his sins, would use it to protect himself from ever facing the consequences of all his crimes.So, yes, it's entirely conceivable that a person like that would try to steal the presidency. But what would he do then?That's the scary part, because as the president, he'd have the power to set the budget. That would allow him to effectively steal astronomical sums of money. In fact, he could steal money that does not even exist yet. He could create mechanisms that would divert funds to his accounts, and stick the American people with trillions of dollars in debt.Tens of trillions.Hundreds of trillions.He would be in a position to steal more wealth than any other criminal in human history, all for the sake of covering up his exponentially growing list of crimes.So, you'd see things like pressure to remove the debt ceiling. Naturally, he'd insist on massive tax cuts for himself. That's just getting started. He'd probably also create a personal police force because that's always a convenient way to get more funding. Meanwhile, he'd strip the population of things like education and healthcare.In short, it would be bad.But here's the thing. When you lay it out like this, it just doesn't seem practical. The crimes keep getting bigger. The cover-ups become bigger still and create even more crimes. The cycle would accelerate and then began to repeat so fast it would resembling the flickering of a movie projector.Flash, flash, flash, flash—every flash a scandal.The daily lives of regular citizens would feel like riding an insane tilt-a-whirl until the stress of the momentum eventually exceeded the tolerances of the mechanism. Eventually a bolt is going to rattle loose or break and then POOF!When the POOF comes, the monster is suddenly going to find himself the focal point of all the crimes he'd managed to escape throughout the entirety of his miserable, wasted life.That's one thing that experience has taught me. You can't run forever. You can't outrun your mistakes. You can't outrun truth. You can't outrun time. That's why I tell my kids to always be humble. I tell them to always practice accountability. It's because something awful happens to the soul of a person who refuses to behave responsibly. They become monsters. They become universally reviled.You can't escape accountability by committing an even greater crime. What greater crime can there be than stealing the presidency? It seems that such an act would only make your punishment even more terrible on the day the bill finally came due.Once you've stolen the presidency, you're out of actions you can take to cover it up. What can you do? A commitment to evil eventually pushes everyone into a corner. This will be a good lesson for future generations to observe.You all make this newsletter happen! Thanks for your sponsorship! I have payment tiers starting at as little as twenty dollars a year.Upgrade at 30% offUpgrade at 40% offUpgrade at 50% offUpgrade at 60% offI'm so happy you're here, and I'm looking forward to sharing more thoughts with you tomorrow.My CoSchedule referral linkHere’s my referral link to my preferred headline analyzer tool. 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