"I suppose that's what I would be saying, Steve, if I had a chance to say it," I said to him quietly. "But that is not really possible, is it? And even if it were possible against all odds to say this to the President of the United States of America, that he is incompetent and a traitor, would he be listening?"

      "Of course he wouldn't be listening," said Steve and began to laugh again.

      "I would never get near him," I said emphatically. "It will all have to come through Fred, and that adds another level of uncertainty."

      "So, Peter, educate Fred. Get him to educate the President at least to the point that he recognizes that he must vacate his office," said Steve. "I'm sure that the President can be educated to become a human being. Nobody can sink so low that he cannot be educated to become a human being. Then, once he regards himself as a human being, he will know what is required of him. A human being is someone who is able to reason. He will be capable of some basic reasoning if his humanity is being awakened just a bit, which is native to all human beings."

      "Do you think Fred can educate him up to that stage, Steve?" I aked.

      "Ultimately, you are not dependent on what your boss, Fred, can or cannot do, Peter. YOU know what needs to be done. Get it done! If the entire White House staff is as incompetent as the President, and all the institutions that make up the Presidency are also incompetent, then you have to go to the Senate that owns the task to oversee the White House and to assure that the Presidency functions. And if the Senate should turn out to be incompetent also, which will most likely be the case, because the disease of incompetence has become epidemic, then you have to go to Congress and petition Congress to declare both the President and the Senate dangerously incompetent and request that their offices be vacated. And if Congress turns out to be incompetent likewise, which is totally possible, considering how far our nations has already sunk into the sewer, then you'll have to go to the people. There you would have to get the idea across that democracy means taking responsibility. Should you find however, that the people are incompetent also, then you'll have to get society to resign itself from the dream that it lives in a democracy. Democracy means taking responsibility. It is an illusion that democracy means only counting votes. That's the smallest aspect. The big thing in a democracy is safeguarding the principles on which the nation is founded. That involves a lot a of responsibility, especially the responsibility that the General Welfare Principle, or the Universal Welfare Principle as you might call it, will not be lost sight of. Civilization is thereby defended and advanced, in the course of defending and advancing these principles."

      I shrugged my shoulders. I told Steve that I agreed with him. I also told him about a man that I had learned to respect, a man who understood economics in terms of those principles that we had just talked about, who had rediscovered those principles long before I had and has taken them further than even we could comprehend, a man who has been fighting for those principles for years, a man who is being laughed at, scorned, ridiculed, and vilified for these very principles. I told him that this man has worked for years to inspire the governments of the world to get together and set up a new Bretton Woods type monetary system with fixed exchange rates among nations, the same as we would propose to the President. That single step of creating a new financial architecture for the world, all by itself, would stop the privatization of the nations' wealth into the pockets of a few pirates. It would do wonders for the recovery of the world. I told Steve that this man tells the world that this step forward would create a foundation for equitable trading by which all nations could begin to redevelop again economically into a community of productive societies. I reminded Steve that the old Bretton Woods agreement is a part of our history, which the USA had pioneered. We had created it. We had set it up under the direction of President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, one of the few real Presidents that we had. But it has all been trashed. Under our would-be-King traitors, who never really were King but underlings to the empires, our once noble USA killed it brightest contribution to global prosperity in 1971 on the advise of its imperial masters."

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