That was quite well thought out.
The concept is actually an ancient one, finding its first voice in Plato’s vision of The Republic, Kallipolis.
Plato (and his fellows in the Socratic School) recognized that all systems, no matter how ingeniously conceived would suffer the twin decay of atrophy and entropy. Just so, we are living in a nation whose Constitution has atrophied from disuse and suffering the entropy of repeated corruption mounting to the point of cronyism with no recognizable similarities to the Free Market Capitalism that built the economy in the first place.
Only the steady hand of the Benevolent Dictator could keep the ship of state aright in times of great duress.
The problem with this is of course that those so disposed to becoming dictator are most often those least able to fulfill the role, especially from an altruistic perspective. Men like Thomas Nelson and Lucius Cincinnatus just aren’t all that easy to find.
Although ..... If anyone is so inclined as to offer me the chance to be Dictator for say - six months? - I’ll have the alphabet soup in Washington all standing guard on the Southern Border and what’s left of ISIS, the Taliban and Hamas will be trying to pitch their tents by driving the pegs through glass.
Oh. You can have your doctor back too. I promise.
{;^)
The spark for my post was Chapter 34 of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy.
He points out that institutions designed to keep free republics free, are counterproductive and harmful in corrupt republics.
That maxim is before our eyes. Congress used to represent the major elements of our republic, the people and states. The laws they created had a firm basis for nationwide support.
Today, the law is largely whatever Obama and his ministers say it is. Congress doesn't represent either the people nor states. Over time, congress increasingly serves party leaders and major money donors whose particular interest is typically opposed to the general interest, the general welfare.
So, the once law-giving institution of a free republic has bee reduced to that of a miserable servant to tyranny. It is why I will probably cease voting, for every vote increasingly serves to condone tyranny.