Alternatively we could choose one of our own.
Obiwanobiwan
Draugnar
MadMarx?

10 year life term. I.e., 10 years then off with your head and thanks for your service. Use it well. Maybe temper it by instead of killing the dictator at the end of his or her term, sending him or her to a monastery to live out the rest of their life in exile. Any messing in politics from there and out comes the axe.

That sounds like a great idea haha. Can I nominate Donald Trump?

I pick me. We'd call this shit the CSA: Chillest States of America. Pot would be legal and no one would commit crimes 'cause we'd all be too busy being chill as fuck.

WHO'S WITH ME?!

Second that! (from Europe though)

As a non-smoker, President Eden gets his vote.

just for the irony that our dictator that is replacing the President would be named President Eden.

I'm amazed none of you have mentioned the man who is surely closest to this power:
Rupert Merdock

Your forgetting about the best candidate. Me!

How about Dalai Lama? Peace for all.

Wow, George Bush actually sounds fantastic compared to some of these suggestions!

I'll do it.

For starters, I'll make Sicarius my Vice-Dictator.

Then I'll torture and execute Fag-naur and obi-fool on pay-per-view television, thus eliminating the deficit.

General Raymond Odierno

If he can pacify Iraq, he can pacify America.

Gordon Ramsay.

+1 for mapleleaf

Wait...if Democracy is dead, why are you going to vote on who should be Dictator? Aren't you just proving that your Dictator relies upon Democracy?

The sad thing is that any of you think our nation is a "Democracy". It is not. It is a Representative Republic, and our "Representatives" stopped representing us decades ago. THAT is why we are in the fucked up position we are in.

What we REALLY need to do is go the opposite direction. The original founding had a ratio of something like 1 Representative for every 10,000 people (I forget the exact number, so chill if I'm wrong). if we kept that ratio, we'd have 30,000 representatives. With THAT many people voting, no special interests could ever buy them off. They could (and SHOULD) stay at home in their home district office, they could video conference to debate, vote electronically on a new network they would build physically separate from the internet (to prevent hacking)...THEN you might actually get some representation. At the very least, you might increase the odds that at least ONE of the dumbfucks would READ a piece of legislation before voting!

We've eliminated many of our 'republican' aspects of government, though. Our electoral college is a sham, since the electors have little autonomy and are directly elected by the people. We directly elect Senators, so state governments no longer have the authority to appoint them. We even elect judges in many cases. There's very little we haven't subjected to majoritarian democratic mechanisms. The one thing might be the constitution, which is essential for any so-called 'republic', but even that has been changed or reinterpreted according to popular mood.

You need an experrienced dictator. Kim Jong il, Laurent Gbagbo...

-1000 to Krellin. The fact that they are representing us and not leading us is why we are in the fucked up position we are in.

I love it when people bring up "bought out by special interests" and such. 87% of Americans are a member of at least one special interest group that has a lobbyist in Washington.

Bought out by...ourselves.

Just a tip of the iceberg, but "special interests" include unions for teachers, nurses, and firefighters. They include groups for cancer survivors, domestic abuse survivors, orphaned children, and victims of violent crime. Special interest groups exist both to completely ban all guns and to completely legalize all guns. Same with drugs and abortion.

It's not a megalithic group with a common goal of driving down the common man, but certain people would like you to believe it is.

@Fasces -- apparently you don't understand the "Representative" part of "REPRESENTATIVE Republic..." duhhh....So, the Democrats that ran the country for the past two years, who "led" instead of "represent" us, did a good job? I'm not looking for some politician who thinks he knows everything to lead me. Maybe YOU want to be a good little sheep and follow what your politician says. As for me, I can manage my life well enough on my own without the government wiping my ass.

As for you, SacredDigits - really? You actually think your local politicians have been bought out by YOU? You think they listen to YOU? As oppossed to political action groups, unions and corporations that throw money at them by the millions??? You think they listen to YOU and every Joe Blow citizen instead of the Lobbyists from corporations that make them personally wealthy??? Get a clue, dude....

Kestas for US Dictator!

...political action groups and unions are...us.

Cthuhlu - Why choose a lesser evil?

"Now that it has been proven in various threads that democracy does not work, and that a dictatorship is the best option, . . ."

You've got some guts to say that.

"@Fasces -- apparently you don't understand the "Representative" part of "REPRESENTATIVE Republic..." duhhh....So, the Democrats that ran the country for the past two years, who "led" instead of "represent" us, did a good job? I'm not looking for some politician who thinks he knows everything to lead me. Maybe YOU want to be a good little sheep and follow what your politician says. As for me, I can manage my life well enough on my own without the government wiping my ass."
We elected them, they represented the ideas of the lower class, and if you look, the number of voted in 2008 was significantly higher then 2010, as the lower class was actually represented in 2008.
In 2012 the people will vote in a democratic congress. Called it.

Check the other threads JECE and krellin if you'd like to debate the fact that a dictatorship is the best gov't form.

I'm gonna go with Rupert Murdock, Steve Jobs, or Bill Clinton. I think any one of those guys would do fairly well as a dictator, though Jobs doesn't have much/any political experience.

STEVE JOBS is the worst CEO of a successful company in history. He knows nothing about humans only about machines, there is no way he would be good at running a country .

would you like to elaborate on that blanket statement?

Cthuhlu - Why choose a lesser evil?

ROTFLMAO! (almost literally!) I, for one, intend to vote for Kodos:

http://sclipo.com/videos/view/kang-and-kodos

"STEVE JOBS is the worst CEO... "
That statement is so couterintuitive that it is interesting. Why so?

He's young, but I think that could be a good thing. I'll be supporting Mark Zuckerberg in the revolution, and not just as dictator of the USA but as the first Emperor of the World.

Well, if we are talking Emperor of the NEw World ORder, I vote Barney Stinson!

hmmmmmm Rush Limbaugh or O'Reiley or Glenn Beck? take your pick

@Everyone who admires Steve Jobs in this thread, Here is my response:
His idiotic choices in the 90's lead to Apple going bankrupt and bailed out by Microsoft. The 3 biggest Mac fans I know all agree that Steve Jobs knows nothing about running a company, but is genius when it comes to running techno advances.

Steve Jobs was one of the founders of Apple, but I always thought the company went to shit after he left (in the 1980s?), but then he returned in the late 90s and turned everything around. Certainly the company has gone from strength to strength under his current reign.
But I would be interested hear the opposite story. Are there any business writers that you can refer me to who back up the opinion of your three friends with macs?

It went Bankrupt due to some idiotic choices he mad in the early 90's. Before that it was bigger then Microsoft. As a result he was fired by the board of directors and got back in after publishing his invention of the iPod. It wasn't competent business model that keeps Apple going (for if it was they would be screwed) but the peoples love of iPod's and iPhone's

Jeremy Clarkson

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-505788/Jeremy-Clarkson-Prime-Minister.html

Fasces I have no clue where you are getting your facts from because that's all complete bullshit. Do your research and you'll see that Jobs wasn't even AT Apple anymore by the 90's (he lost a power-struggle within the company in '85 and was fired). Then they made all their stupid ass decisions and eventually had to bring him back in '96 to fix their mistakes and pull them out of bankruptcy. Do some research before you start spewing off such ridiculous things and making yourself sound retarded.

Pfft, what we should do is find a strip of Adolf Hitler DNA and clone him. That's the real way to do things.

After conducting further research I admit that I am indeed wrong in this debate, and that my sources were indeed inaccurate. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Just choose me. I'll make East Franconian the official language and make misdemeanors punishable by dangling a person out of a small plane by a bungie-cord while flying over a populated area.

That sounds fun.