MARS OR A HOT CUP OF COFFEE IN THE MORNING AT A SIDEWALK CAFÉ (Excerpt from A Perfect Presidency, A Political Novel)

“Can you explain to me why the billionaires seem to dislike Democracy and why they want to live in a different America?” Bennett asked.

“I don’t know for certain, Mr. Secretary, because I have never been a millionaire, let alone a billionaire. I guess they were conceived and born differently. We ordinary people love a moment of serenity on a lakeshore, or watching the sunset over the mountains, or breathing in the exhilarating breeze that blows our way in the morning, or walking on the beach, mingling with and saying hello to other beachgoers. Billionaires are endowed with extraordinary gifts of money and brains. They probably see only extraordinary things, but not the everyday pleasant things we enjoy, and therefore don’t feel close to us or comfortable with us. They don’t live in downtown New York or San Francisco. They don’t walk down the street to have a cup of coffee, mingling and shooting the breeze with Joes and Janes. They live on a yacht or buy an island to live away from the multitudes, that was why they love Oligarchy or Autocracy.

“Another explanation is that in an Oligarchy or even in an Autocracy or Aristocracy, the rich are always on top and, as history shows, have power over the rest of the populace. In a Democracy, ordinary people can call the rich by their first name, something billionaires would really dislike.”

“Huh, …” grumbled the former secretary.

“Sorry,” Le said, “I did not mean to make light of our country’s current political affairs. As a sincere apology, I would like to add some food for thought.

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THE REVOLUTION (An Excerpt from “A Perfect Presidency”, A Political Novel)

    Allen Elrod and his allies, with the support of Representative Edwards, had steadfastly insisted that the “Revolution” had to be confined to the U.S. They believed that the Movement must take care of America without wasting resources to spread it to Europe or anywhere else. Let the European have their own revolution, they maintained, then a detached USA couldn’t be accused of political interference in Europe to reverse Democracy back to a dictatorial regime, thus giving it a more credible claim that the “revolution”, that meant the anti-Democracy movement, was initiated and sustained by the Europeans independently, not under American pressure, and the revolutionary movement was not an American political phenomenon but universal. They saw Richardson’s push to establish a white nation or white world as provocative and unwise.
Still, both camps believed that America needed a revolution, which, like any other revolution, needed dedicated cadres with an emotional fixation. They found that fanatical energy in the racists. Elrod did not trust that the white establishment, with their bizarre secret societies and brotherly loyalty, loyal to themselves and the orders they had set to promote, could ever understand his burning desire to turn the table on the Yankees, the Harvardians and the Yalies, to pull down their democratic structure and rebuild America according to his ancestors’ idea of a white nation. He needed new organization, new order to serve their interest, the interest of the white people including the maintaining of their superiority and dominance over all other races and creatures.
    The most successful revolution with the focused energy necessary to guarantee success, ironically, was the subject of hostility of the Christian Republican Party for as long as he could remember: the communist revolution, which exploited the fanatism of the lowest caste of the Russian society, the proletariat. That, however, was the extent of the similarity between the Communist revolution and the Movement’s revolution. Elrod and his comrades did not think that the American proletariat could initiate and carry to success their revolution. They knew it would have to be incubated, nurtured, and built by them, the billionaires and fellow ideologists, not the racist, poor, and uneducated white who believed the world was created a few thousand years ago and God created them as the special and privileged people, pure blood Aryans. They knew that the proletariat could not govern themselves. It could carry the banner and start pulling the revolutionary train forward, but the leadership belonged exclusively to himself and his fellow billionaires.
    What or who the Movement further needed was the professionals, the technocrats, and the bureaucrats, in other words, the middle class. To pull this class into their camp, the Movement needed an energetic and first-rate strategic mind. They found it in Daniel Richardson, the computer scientist who became a millionaire at the young age of 31.
    Elrod had first recruited Wilcox to lead their effort to win power for the Christian Republicans. When he met Richardson, Wilcox’s lieutenant, he and his fellow Southerners, Hightower, Barnes, thought that they had found a comrade in arms to reestablish the Southern way of life over the country, a racist white dominated nation. They paused when Richardson enthusiastically expounded his dream of, not a white nation but a white world. But the more he talked to Richardson, the more he was drawn to Richardson’s idea, or so it seemed. He kept calling Richardson to ask for more realistic description of such world and clarification of the role of Russia in the founding, and later the operation, of the new white world.
Richardson felt uneasy. He had known of Elrod’s plan to re-establish Aristocracy. He had doubts that Elrod and his friends were sincere about pursuing a democratic white world. He had the weird thought that Elrod showed interest in his grand plan not because he was interested in such a world but rather in Richardson himself. The thought gave him nausea. He resented the idea that anyone would think that he was homosexual.
    He knew that people with extra testosterone could get aroused easily being near a woman even if she was a close friend or a relative. He suspected that people like Elrod could also get aroused being near a certain type of men and that gave him goose-bumps whenever he found himself in the same room with Elrod. He also knew that he could not reject him openly because he was not certain that he had the support of Wilcox, Thalberg, and Peterson in his endeavor to build a democratic white world. Alienating an ally as important as Elrod would be risky. He must deal with the situation discreetly and deftly.
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