What would you do?

What would you do if you wanted to deliberately undermine the very fabric of these United States?

First you would have to be elected President of the USA. In order to achieve this goal, you would have to vow not just to change its policies but to completely "change America." You would offer America "hope and change." You would have to control the message -- maybe use a teleprompter for all stump speeches. This way you could reduce the risk of misspeaking and your staff could feed you real-time answers and humorous responses. You would use the internet to raise funds from the masses. If you could find a "sponsor" with very deep pockets that also understood the intricacies of both the internet and the financial markets, you could potentially impact the economy at just the right time. Of course, you would have to have some way to make youself unique -- maybe play the "black card" eventhough you are 1/2 white and less than 1/2 black. Think of it as the minority card. Finally, use fear. Fear that our financial markets are failing us. Fear that our major manufacturing companies are stealng from us. Fear that our healthcare system is too costly and not available to "all Americans." Fear that a virus will destroy our world. Fear that our military is worse than our enemies. Fear, fear, fear. No one can deal with so much fear . . . except the President. Wow, this could work!

Once elected, you would have to work quickly. Don't let the people have time to understand the principles of "head fakes" -- tell them one thing, give them another. Always blame the previous administration. Never be ultimately responsible. When in doubt have a press conference. Control the media. When it gets hot, travel -- it is hard to hit a moving target. Wow, this could work!

To undermine this nation, you would attack the essential sanctity of contracts. How can this be done? Never mind the "contracts" clause of the Constitution -- who needs to get hung up on the Constitution's actual language when "empathy" is more important?

For that matter, you would denigrate the whole notion of equal justice under the law by criticizing the whole notion of a judge as a neutral umpire. And you could employ, as a senator, outrageous and unprecedented means -- the filibusters of judicial nominees -- to block judges who don't agree with your own choices of who deserves more "justice" than whom. Wow, this could work!

To undermine this nation, you would selectively release only those portions of intelligence memos that make his nation look bad, but not those that provide context and reasonable motivations for the subject of the memos. And you would selectively edit memos from your own intelligence director to eliminate his statements in support of the effectiveness of the policies discussed in those other memos -- and his statements supporting the motives of those who adopted those policies in protection of their fellow citizens. And you would leave open the possibility of prosecuting earlier administration's lawyers merely for giving legal advice that you disagreed with.

To undermine this nation, a president would go on a spending binge so incredibly wild that annual deficits and national debt would reach frightening proportions before most Americans could even absorb the arithmetic of it all. You would be utterly reckless with our grandchildren's tax money, but would turn around and achieve savings -- minor savings at that -- only by cutting or even gutting defense forces.

You would stop paying for missile defenses. You would stop planning for forces strong enough to handle two regional wars at once, and would concentrate only on counterinsurgency needs while hollowing out our conventional forces. You would repeatedly insult our closest ally (Great Britain) while kowtowing to enemies such as Iran, Venezuela, and Nicaraguan communists. You would travel the world repeatedly apologizing for supposed American sins while failing to defend the USA from verbal assaults from tinpot dictators.

You would submit budgets that would eliminate funding for an already authorized border fence, and nominate as top lawyer of the State Department a man who openly mocks the legal underpinnings of American sovereignty. You would propose raising taxes on corporations, on soft drinks, on investors, on savers, on the grieving families of dead people, on small businesses, and on every family that uses public energy sources.

And worst of all, you would propose unprecedented and underhanded use of a parliamentary maneuver called "reconciliation" to ease the way to an irrevocable government takeover of an entire major sector of the economy -- health care -- without adequate debate and with firm knowledge that the takeover could lead to serious health care rationing and even government-determined decisions on life and death.

To undermine this nation, you would throw out more than two centuries of economic freedom in favor of a modern-day version of Mussolini's economic fascism.

You would refuse to prosecute vote fraud or even guard against it, while repeatedly awarding financial grants to organizations such as ACORN that have been accused of voter fraud on multiple occasions in multiple states. You would stack the Justice Department with highly politicized left-wingers. You would fail, until put directly on the spot, to offer the slightest rebuke to your hand-picked, ethically compromised Attorney General when said AG calls his fellow citizens "a nation of cowards."

In short, to undermine the United States, the president would, as fast as possible, create a massively debt-ridden, tax-ridden, regulation-ridden government whose prosecutors play political favorites but whose stances on the world stage are marked by weakness, self-criticism, and solicitousness towards one's enemies.

That’s what you would do if you were purposefully attempting to destroy the United States of America.