Centiki: Mirror of the state

By Jacques Persil

"If I want to win the Democratic nomination in 2004, I must use all the help I can get. I need a catchy phrase that will rally the masses. I was thinking to use "Make America great again." A lawyer friend advised against it. He argues that this will open the floodgates for so many lawsuits that the country is ruined. For two hundred years millions of people have come to America led to believe that they were going to the greatest country on Earth. If I am elected by the majority of Americans to make America great again, is not that proof that our country was not the greatest before? The essence of politics is that people listen to what they want to hear. I will have to repeat a million times what I want to say until the little people think they had that idea all along. My views have been shaped by the experience I got from the family construction business. As a Democrat, it bothers me that I build expensive homes for rich people who use the high price to keep the poor out. They say that this is the natural order. We have so many poor because we limit our growth. You need lots and lots of people to generate the kind of wealth that will lift everybody out of poverty. The power is in the numbers. A country is very much like one of these online outfits: the more members they have the richer the company gets. I wish so much I had gotten on the dotcom bandwagon. I can't help it. I'm old school. I thought this Internet thing was going to go away like all the other fads. My accountant kept pushing me to invest the money I inherited in an online business. If I invested half a billion dollars in Amazon, I would be worth close to one hundred billion today. I could have taken a lifelong vacation and let these bozos bust their asses working for me. All my life I have been advocating for the free movement of people and goods. Look at the Chinese They have a country with a middle class of one billion. Only yesterday they were a medieval society. Now they peddle their worthless businesses on Wall Street. Imagine American investors getting approved for their sacred dividends by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. I have been trying for years to set up companies in China. They ask for proof of leadership qualifications and grades in school. I can't compete on those terms. They are clearly biased against the West. Don't get me wrong. The Chinese are very nice people. I play golf with them. The official census recognizes five races in US. If you count the ethnicities and all the combinations and permutations of race and ethnicity you get into hundreds of outcomes. The great American melting pot becomes a boiling cauldron when you factor in religion and all the race-ethnicity possible combinations. If sexual preference, level of education, social class, gender and age are considered, a true tower of Babel emerges. That's why America is a country of xenophobes. Any of the groups in our country has a phobia about one or more other groups. I will use this fear to ascend to power and unite people, not sow discord among brothers. The best shot I have at the executive office is to appeal to all the groups of minorities. They have something in common: they are marginalized. I will organize rallies for the Hispanics, African and Asian Americans, Jews, Arabs and the growing number of gay members of our society. Every Tuesday I will have ladies night. I know how to talk to women best. Some of these groups tolerate each other well enough. Some groups are incompatible. To avoid conflict, I have to address them in separate rallies. Take the Hispanics for example. They are good, hardworking people and don't have the time or language skills to read the tabloids. Media is making rapists and murderers out of all of them. In the 1850's Thomas Nast and other cartoonists sketched Irish people like monsters with the sloping foreheads of apes."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1696031990
• ISBN13: 9781696031998
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 42 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"