Once upon a time in America there was a small group of wealthy industrialists and a few frustrated right wing Republican fanatics who gathered together in the late 1900’s at the request of Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and Paul Wolfowitz. They met to discuss their common belief that they were destined to become the new Hohenzollerns (the 11^th century Bavarian ruling class that dominated Germany and most of Europe for several hundred years). 

They would build an American empire to exceed the grandeur of the Egyptians, the Greeks and even the Romans.

Their empire was to encompass the entire world and would start in the Mid East with the invasion of Iraq and would then spread out from there.

They would begin by getting one of their own into the White House and gain control of congress. They would use whatever means their collective wealth could buy, steal, or bribe, to accomplish this for in their minds their goal was so lofty and noble that any methods could be justified and history would most certainly worship them in the years ahead; holding them up as the true saviors of western civilization.

While they succeeded far beyond their dreams in seizing power by the year 2000, they had one problem that none of them foresaw and that was the fact that not one among them, or all of them collectively, could govern and so due to incompetence and outright stupidity once in power they ran the country into near bankruptcy, and the American public one day awoke from this nightmare and voted the wannabes out of power.

Because the damage they had wracked upon the country was so severe it would be many years before Republicans ever again would be in control.

The new Hohenzollern failed like so many other empirical schemes throughout history and in a few short years they would be completely forgotten.

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