3. Appease or subsidize enemies like Iran and China.
4. In a multiracial democracy, redefine identity only as one’s tribal affiliation.
5. Recalibrate violent crime as understandable, cry-of-the-heart expressions of social justice.
6. Emasculate the military by using non-meritocratic standards of race, gender, and sexual orientation to determine promotion and commendation.
7. Reinvent the justice system to indict, bankrupt, convict, jail and eliminate political opponents.
8. Encourage the fusion of the bureaucratic state with the electronic media to form a powerful force for political audit, surveillance, censorship and coercion.
9. Make war on affordable gasoline and natural gas.
10. Marry late, but preferably not at all.
11. Turn world-class universities into indoctrination centers.