Yes, boys and girls, even the ignorati of our great nation eventually can figure it out. They are beginning to notice that the Emperor's clothes aren't cut from whole cloth. In fact there is serious doubt that there is any cloth at all.
Credibility Crisis! Who Woulda Thunk It?
Somehow they figure it out. You've got to pay for things. You've got to work for things. You've got to believe in your country. And, most of all you've got to be honest in your statements and responsive in your policies.
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Here’s an interesting thought experiment. Image that we readers are all time-ported back to the dark days of WWII. Pick a year and combat theater of your choosing. And remember, the outcome of the war in both the ETO and the Pacific is still uncertain.
Now, as part of the thought experiment, imagine that in the election of 1940 Wendell Willkie defeated FDR. And because our experiment still has some flaws, some other current characters journey back in time with us. Given this unusual opportunity, President Willkie appoints Eric Holder as Attorney General, and instructs him to monitor DOJ and the FBI. Leniency of captured Nazi saboteurs is urged; they will get a trial in downtown Manhattan. Janet Napolitano is placed in charge of homeland defense, and Ken Salazar is placed in charge of the many alphabet agencies that run war production. That’s on the home front.
To address the war effort on the battlefield, President Willkie forces General Patton into retirement and informs General Eisenhower that in the run up to D-Day war production will be severely curtained. Even the reduced production of tanks, howitzers and munitions soon pile up at waterfront docks because Willkie refuses to suspend the Jones Act, which accidently slipped through the time change apparatus.
To let our wartime enemies know that we are a peace-loving people, the U.S. Navy will no longer depth charge German U-boats, and B-17s of the Eight Air Force will now only drop pamphlets over German cities. In the Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur is ordered to forgo invasions of Bougainville, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian, Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. And to drive home our peaceful intentions, General LeMay can only use B-29s to drop leaflets over Japanese cities advising Hirohito that Americans are sensitive to the cultural and scientific achievements of Japan. The Manhattan Project and all atomic weapons will be cancelled.
At the end of the thought experiment we are all time-ported back to July, 2010. Our bad experiment is now over. Isn’t it?
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