I said this to a couple of my friends in the car yesterday. They thought I was kidding or being overly dramatic. I was completely serious. *** Cheney is Voldemort.
Voldemort took over the Ministry of Magic but he did it secretly; he didn't declare himself Minister of Magic, he just controlled said Minister. He killed and tortured lots of people. He was evil.
*** Cheney is not the President, but the real President is too stupid to think for himself. His brain has a name: *** Cheney. *** Cheney controls the government. He is the evil puppetmaster. He condones torture. He has killed tens of thousands of people, civillians, through the war in Iraq. And he's just as power-hungry as Voldemort ever was. The executive branch has made huge power grabs in recent years, making it by far the most powerful. And the most powerful person in the executive branch is *** Cheney.
*** Cheney is arguably the most powerful person in American history. This administration has taken more power than any other I can think of, a student of both AP US History and AP US Government and Politics. I mean, I know what I'm talking about. I read TIME, US News & World Report, and the New York Times. This administration is certainly one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, and *** Cheney is the driving force behind it all.
This, quite frankly, is terrifying. The man is evil to the bone. Evil and bloodthirsty and powerhungry. He makes me want to run away to Sweden. He is Voldemort. He is in charge of us all, and we do nothing. We are the "good Germans" in World War II! Sitting here, doing nothing, while innocent people die because we have elected the real-life equivalent of Voldemort to rule us! Thank God for his health problems, that he's not running for president. I would honestly leave the country. I've been research cheap flights out. $322 to Kiev.
America has a tradition of a peaceful transition of power. At the end of his eight years, *** Cheney will probably step down peacefully. But...I have that nagging fear. That nagging fear that he will try to take over the government. Is this ridiculous? Probably. But I wouldn't rule it out.
The CIA will probably show up at my house tomorrow and take me to a secret detention center in Afghanistan to use illegal torture techniques on me for writing this.