Steve Sailer writes: Back in the 1990s, I proposed that America have a Head of State distinct from the Head of Government, who would embody the ceremonial majesty of the country.
I think a ten year appointive term with an unwritten tradition that it would be filled by senior black celebrities would be satisfying to the public: such as in 1996 James Earl Jones, in 2006 Oprah, and in 2016 Samuel L. Jackson or Denzel Washington, with, say, Will Smith or David Robinson on deck for 2026; for 2036 LeBron James, Russell Wilson or Viola Davis?
This might be a good solution to the problem that has been emerging for the Democratic Party of white candidates having to abase themselves in front of demented black protestors, which is related to the problem the Academy Awards have been having: the black feeling of megalomaniacal entitlement that once you go black you can never go back.
But of course there’s not such a surplus of black competence that these strongly felt emotions can safely be accommodated.
However, there is no shortage of blacks with kingly or queenly affects.
So, create important ceremonial positions only open, by tradition, to black celebrities.
COMMENTS:
* A big part of the Trump movement is the result of the masses believing that we no longer have a constitutional republic. Too many thousand-page bills and trade deals that no one gets to read are rubber stamped. The federal government refuses to enforce existing laws, or at the least picks and chooses which laws to enforce. De facto amnesty has been granted to millions of people who don’t belong.
Yet the Trump supporters are the problem? Trump only needs to enforce existing laws to make an impact. Yet enforcing laws seems to be autocratic by Douthat. Oh, and throw in a reference to Putin. That’s double-plus-bad.
We get it. We are supposed to shut up, let the rulers replace our population and outsource our industry all while trying to start a war with Russia.
* The Douther is a real moron.
If people want a king, it’s because a king focuses on the kingdom.
What we have is an empire, and the imperial presidency has turned the president into an emperor(albeit a puppet-emperor) of the GLOB order.
I think it’s better to have a ‘king’ than an ‘emperor’.
Emperor is too focused on the world to care about the security and interests of his own kingdom.
Once the rulers become addicted to World Power, that of the empire, then one’ s own kingdom or republic seems so puny and small. Addiction to scale.
So, the paradox of Trump is he wants to be the big man to focus on the little people of his ‘kingdom’. He wants ‘kingdom first’ than ‘empire always’.
And that is the good side of Putin. He wants to be the Russian leader of Russia, not the world.
It is the US that is an empire, and it is US presidents who’ve been acting like globo-emperors.
No more emperors trying to rule the world. Better to have kings focusing on the kingdom.
As the Romans found out, when you conquer the world, the world conquers you. All roads that lead out from Rome also lead to Rome.
* Of course we’re dealing with the “NYT affect” whereby any pundit, no matter how boring or worthless, is deemed IMPORTANT because they are published in the newspaper.
We can start with the fact that Ross is only published in the NYT, because he is a “reasonable” Conservative. That is, he agrees with rich liberals on everything that matters, but disagrees with them on stuff that doesn’t.
So, of course, Ross thinks Trump is the greatest threat to the USA, ever, ever, because Trump opposes open borders and bad trade deals.
The truth is that Trump is a moderate Republican who wants some sanity in our Government dealings regarding trade and immigration but otherwise is a pretty reasonable, middle of the road, american billionaire.
But evidently, even the slightest disagreement with the status quo means you’re “just like Hitler!!”
* Sometimes, maybe most of the time, I have no idea what Douhat is saying, or why he is saying it.
There’s an inherent obscurantism in the guy. As the Good Dr. Nietzsche would have it, he muddies his waters that they might appear deep.
* There’s another interpretation than “the cult of the presidency”. There’s the real-world observation that the presidency keeps getting more powerful, so it’s logical to assume if your guy wins he’ll have at least as much power as the last guy.
The only thing that obscures this observation is that recent GOP presidents think small domestically. Their biggest domestic accomplishments are either stuff Dems wanted too (raising social security taxes to extend the program, creating the department of homeland security) or temporary (Reagan’s tax cuts; W’s top rate tax cuts). But Obama shows what’s possible. He created the biggest new entitlement since LBJ and imported millions of future voters for his party by deciding not to enforce some immigration laws.
* Reflecting back on the Obama presidency, I’ve come to the conclusion that Obama cared very little about governing but cared a lot about trolling whitey. Indeed, he spent the bulk of his time very visibly enjoying the perks of office, burning through more tax payer money on vacations than all the presidents of the 20th century combined. Truly, he was the first Hip Hop president with his Secret Service posse, and his own private 747. His goal was to be a proxy Everynegro living the lifestyle every black man and woman thinks he/she is entitled to.
So as an improvement to our democracy, I propose a copy of Versailles be built somewhere on the National Mall to accommodate this new head of state. And I recommend that he stand for election during regular presidential Election years but 1) the vote be conducted on the first Monday of Nov. and 2) the head of state can be reelected as many times as he wishes to run. This will divert the black electorate toward more pressing matters like who has the best pimp style, who is keeping it real, and whose First Hootchie Mama has the phattest ass. Come back to the polls on Tue to vote in a second election for some boring chief executive? Fuhgeddaboudit!
* Obama claim to fame is master of the passive aggressive troll. Obama could be as lazy, as golfing, as hoops shooting as he wanted to be because he appointed energetic true believer leftists and race hustlers working under him. Such as Hillary messing up Libya and Syria, causing the migrant invasion of Europe. Thomas Perez and Holder at Justice. Valerie Jarrette who is Obama’s brains. Scores of gay, lesbian, black and other types of minority appointees at Justice, State and everywhere. So Obama is vacationing up at Martha’s Vineyard eating ice cream for two weeks? So what, because his appointed termites keep busy gnawing away every day of the year. Call this “The Art Of The Laze”.
