What are the characteristics of a successful Czar or great President? Czar Vlad is the most successful Czar in Russian history. And a major element of his success has been his creation of the worst American President.
Related Topics: Der Don, Other Enemies
This time I'd like to talk about the special relationship between Czar Vlad, the most successful Czar in Russian history.
and Der Don, the worst American president ever.
Before I talk about the relationship between these two individuals, I'd like to outline what I see as the characteristics of a successful Russian Czar and those of a good United States president.
A Czar is the absolute ruler of the Empire.
I think a successful Czar would have these three characteristics:
1. he or she would command absolute unquestioned authority.
2. The Czar would make the Russian people proud.
3. a successful Czar would make the Russian people feel safe.
Traditionally this feeling of safety has been best achieved by
* maintaining a strong military
* and defeating the enemies of the Empire.
A good president is going to be a very different kind of leader.
The job is to administer, in a fair and just manner, the laws passed by the democratically elected legislature.
Three things I think we look for in a good president are:
1. to defend freedom and advance human rights.
A characteristic of most of our greatest presidents is that when they left office more Americans were able to exercise more human rights than when they were inaugurated.
2. bring the American people together.
3. to make the American people feel safe.
But not, as a Czar would, by military spending and the imperial wars.
The American people feel safest when
there is a strong economy with opportunity for all
and when the world is place in which democracies, ours and others, are safe and can thrive.
These are two very different jobs.
Czar Vlad is very well suited to his job. Der Don, not so much.
Did you notice that out of the three characteristics of a successful Czar and one of those of a good president the one strong similarity is that both are expected to make their people feel safe?
What better way for Czar Vlad to make his people feel safe than to embarrass their greatest enemy, which had defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, by placing a Putin Puppet in the Presidency?
And since Der Don it is unfamiliar with democracy it was quite easy for Czar Vlad to coach him into behaving like a Czar.
Thus
1. compromising American freedom, reducing human rights,
2. dividing the American people,
2. weakening our economy, and making the world much less safe for democracy.
Czar Vlad would make a terrible president of the United States, but I think he will go down in history as one of the greatest Russian Czar's.
And Der Don is without question the worst American president so far
and I hope there is never another like him.