Sunday, May 09, 2021
MacDream
Weird dream this morning, definitely not 'my kind of dream'.
I was involved in a palace coup that installed Robert MacNamara as president, to restore order after decades of chaos.
Thoughts after waking:
Terrible idea, because Mac's purpose for order was always aimed at magnifying Mac's personal power, not helping the corporation or the country. He was similar to Trump in ultimate goals, but different in the effect on the govenment. Mac created real order and structure for his own purposes. Trump creates massive chaos for his own purposes.
But Mac's way of achieving order would be appropriate and necessary. Like Trump, he was a master of backbiting, sneaky tactics and internal blackmail.
What we really need is a Putin, a master of spycraft and sneaky tactics who has a burning need to improve the country, not to serve himself.
Of course we were blessed with a Putin from 1932 to 1945. FDR's goal was the same, and he accomplished it. He restored order to the economy and solved all the problems that government was able to solve. He didn't create any new problems at all.
His sneaky tactics weren't visible or known, but he couldn't have accomplished anything without suppressing and out-extorting Lady Edgar. There might have been a deal: Lady Edgar was given new authority and budget to go after bank robbers and kidnappers, and in return she had to keep her filthy hands off everything else.
Labels: Equipoise
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