I shall wrap myself in the flag of my country and hold high a bible in my hand. My songs of reverence and righteousness will be heard throughout the land. I will align myself with those of power and wealth, forsaking the downtrodden and unfortunate and proclaim my actions to be in the best interest of all.
Because the uneducated and ignorant are more easily governed, I will divert funding from the education of our youth, saying to my critics that our children will be given the care that they require. I will repeal legislation that protects the citizenry from environmental pollution and deny their right to judicial process. And I will say that it is necessary for the common good. I will invade foreign powers, categorizing them as evil, and imprison and torture their people. And this, I will say, is justified in that we bring hope, freedom and democracy to the conquered.
I will take from the impoverished, the elderly and the infirmed and they will believe that this is right and good. For it is by their faith rather than their understanding that I have been entrusted with the power to lead them, and they will not readily admit the fallibility of their beliefs.
Let us pray.
