You could blame "political correctness" for the disaster which nearly bankrupt the country.

It would have been too easy to simply blame an earlier administration - but it has been building up because of both parties and numerous Presendents.

Let me insert my usual disclaimer that this is really just a memoir of a very short and unique Presidency by an un-elected citizen. And since I'm now an "Ex", it's too easy to say I'm just a senile old fool.

That's why I can get away with this memoir. Both main parties disowned me, as well as most of the smaller parties (can we again say minority here?)

This disaster had been a long time building, as I said.

While the Republican's weren't blameless by any means, the Democrats had gone after a "majority of minorities" as a way to win elections. Not bad, but this really divided the country.

When you break down statistics (caveat: remember "Lies, Damned lies, and statistics"?) you actually see that the nation is built of minorities, including the white (non-colored) working male part - which included me.

(Let's "sidebar" here: If "people of color" are "black" this also means you could call whites "non-colored" - I don't think anyone should object, as much blame as some in the media heap on "whites" for the wrong reasons.)

So it means that both Left and Right assemble various minority groups - niches, to use a marketing term - in order to secure elections. You can't count on the Non-colored to vote one way any more than you can count on the Colored ("people of color" to vote one way. Your Queer ("LGBT") vote no more uniform than the Latino ("people of partial color") were.

Politicians then had to appeal to various minorities with various promises which were impossible to keep. (Oh, and that's a big surprise?) Democrats had a problem in that church going "blacks" hated "gay marriage", for instance. If they want to encourage Hispanic ("slightly colored") votes, the encouraged legalizing illegal immigration (formerly known as "wetbacks") which then took jobs away from blacks.

What a scene.

Republicans were afraid of the press, because they would all jump on a story (even if false) and then repeat that story on later stories - until it became Gospel truth (aka: urban legend.)

So the whole deal was to break apart the coalition of minorities of the other guy's party.

The way to keep your minorities on your side was to pander to them, by apologizing for the slightest discomfort anything you said or did (if imaginary) to them. Political Correctness and stupidity ruled.

This led us all to a national financial breakdown, narrowly averted.

One urban legend got started some time after I got into office that the Republicans were going to shut down the banking system - which of course started a run on the banks. The FDIC tried to get in front of it, only to be called a "front group" for the One-Percenters. Some simple sleuthing by my staff showed that this turned out to be someone's gambit to get the Democrats back in charge after my term was over.

The damage had been done, though. Without a steady flow of money, banks weren't able to make loans, and so businesses started to fail. So more people went out of work - and had to spend what they had left. You could see that if this weren't stopped quickly, there would be another Recession going on.

So I went on the radio and gave them all hell. Did that for several weeks. My typical "political-correctness-be-damned approach."

My general approach was to compare the Media to a pack of asinine hyenas who bayed at the moon for waking them up at night. And then I labelled anyone who listened to the media as "blindly going from one ditch to the other down the street, with manure-covered feet."

(Media didn't like that one bit, as soon as they looked up what "manure" was. Then they realized hyena's were colored - we countered with "mix-parentage"; they said the quote was from the Bible - and we punted back that a similar phrase was in both the Old Testament and the Koran - so which religion were they persecuting? That shut them up a little bit - being anti-Semitic was one thing, but you didn't want a Jihad going after your New York or L.A. media offices...)

My staff also took a comment I made about how people would soon be burying their money in their back and front yards - and started running a Twitter campaign with photoshopped holes in the White House lawn. People loved this and started adding to the scene, posting any image of any city excavation job as a way to find income for city budgets. (Unfortunately, they also started calling them #obamaholes or #o-holes...)

After that campaign backfired, then people put their money back into the banks (especially after a few well-publicized home invasions in cities where they weren't allowed to have guns. Texas had a few of these as well, but the burglars weren't very successful - they arrested the ones which survived.)

With regular cash flow going again, banks were able to lend money and the nation got going again.

And both main political parties went back to figuring out how to get their guy elected next.

I continued to insist that I wasn't going to run for re-election and I wasn't going to recommend any candidate.

And I was shown on national TV playing horseshoes in the White House back yard (with no holes in it, BTW.)

That seemed to calm down the scene. The Media won't follow boring.

(Photo: "Tax Credits")