If I Were Czar – Part 1

By Arnold Kirkpatrick
First Published: 14 October 2009 - Issue Number: 14

Last time I looked, the good ol’ U. S. of A. was not only a democracy but was trying to export democracy to a number of places, several of which didn’t seem overly enthused about having it.

Furthermore, despite the fact that almost everybody in our country thinks democracy is great – even Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, who are in favor of a sort of altered democracy in which everyone has a free choice, just so long as it’s what those three say we should do – our politicians keep appointing Czars to run everything to which applying some common sense would affect their numbers in the popularity polls. And the minute we appoint a Czar, he is expected to start a war against whatever it is we have appointed him to control.
As best I can figure, we’ve started a lot of wars recently, not just real wars, but a war on poverty, a war on drugs, a war on illicit sex, etc., but, also as best I can recollect, we haven’t won a real war since World War II. I don’t know much about wars and fights, but if I kept losing ‘em, I don’t think I’d be so quick to start ‘em.
Anyway, over the past c...

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