I don’t quite have the neurotransmitter (nor free time!) level at present to write a full-on, useful theological discussion. So, the present will have to suffice for the moment.
Like many individuals in the past few weeks, I’ve been following the U.S. Presidential (and Vice Presidential) debates. While there are good and bad things about both candidates (though I think the “good things” level is far outweighed in one candidate), it got me thinking: what if there were a polytheist president? And what if that polytheist president had a cabinet of fellow polytheists?
So, naturally–though I know for about a billion and a half reasons that this would NEVER EVER EVER! realistically happen in the current universe we all share, what if I were elected President of the United States, through some strange fluke? Who would I appoint as my cabinet, and other White House positions, amongst the polytheists of note that I currently know well enough to think they’d be able to do the job (provided, of course, that doing so didn’t invade too much on their own practices of their religion)?
Well, here’s a few thoughts:
Vice President: Erynn Rowan Laurie.
Secretary of State: Fáelad.
Secretary of the Treasury: Cara Schulz.
Secretary of Defense: Anomalous Thracian.
Attorney General: Micahel Sebastian Lvx.
Secretary of the Interior: Lupa.
Secretary of Agriculture: Dver.
Secretary of Commerce: Sannion.
White House Press Secretary: Jason Pitzl-Waters of The Wild Hunt
And, I’m sure I could come up with people for all of the other positions easily from pagan and polytheist organizations that I’m familiar with.
As you can see, the United States under a P. Sufenas Virius Lupus presidency would be very successful in education, environmental management, and affairs of state…and very likely, totally awful in almost every other respect…and not due to the fault of any of the venerable advisors in these various areas of concern, but because a Lupus presidency would award these positions of import and esteem based on esteem for the individuals involved, rather than their knowledge of the areas concerned, nor my own sense of prioritizing such things.
Nonetheless, I hope to earn your vote in three weeks anyway. 
Yeah, so not ready to be VP, my dear.
By: Erynn on October 16, 2012
at 11:16 pm
But you’d look awesome sitting next to the Speaker of the House, and in the big chair in the Senate…And, really, that’s what it’s all about, innit?
By: aediculaantinoi on October 17, 2012
at 8:20 am
Hah! I wish all it would be was sitting about looking pretty. Who the hell would want to wrangle the Senate anyway?
By: Erynn on October 17, 2012
at 10:17 pm
Well, keep in mind that if all of this happened at all, the Senate would be a very different animal than it is now…No Republicans for starters, as their complete and utter disappearance would be a necessary precondition to me becoming President in the first place!
By: aediculaantinoi on October 18, 2012
at 9:20 am
Stranger things could happen. It’s not like anyone has seen a Whig in these parts in 150 years…
By: Erynn on October 18, 2012
at 10:29 am
Yes…personally, I prefer my Whigs, like my donuts, powdered.
By: aediculaantinoi on October 18, 2012
at 12:21 pm
But what would you be sprinkling them on?
By: Erynn on October 18, 2012
at 12:40 pm
Hahaha! I am just imagining me as State.
By: Faoladh on October 16, 2012
at 11:31 pm
Yeah, we’d be the most messed up cabinet in history.
By: Erynn on October 16, 2012
at 11:56 pm
By which you mean the most awesome Cabinet in history!
By: Faoladh on October 17, 2012
at 12:39 am
Well, naturally. Werewolves and geilta and oracles, oh my!
By: Erynn on October 17, 2012
at 12:42 am
and your wisest move was not putting me in ANY of those positions.
By: Soli on October 17, 2012
at 4:01 am
That could change, if you like! How do you feel about Labor?
By: aediculaantinoi on October 17, 2012
at 8:19 am
Hm, we work too many hours, don’t get paid enough, and need to shake off the chains of this supposed Protestant work ethic. Sound good?
By: Soli on October 17, 2012
at 8:20 am
Congratulations! You’re now the Secretary of Labor! Well done!
By: aediculaantinoi on October 17, 2012
at 8:23 am
dammit! I had to go open my mouth!
By: Soli on October 17, 2012
at 8:24 am
I’m not really sure what the Secretary of Commerce does or what powers come with the office … but I assume it has to do with money and therefore I advocate the legalization of all drugs as well as prostitution so that these can be taxed in order to generate revenue.
By: thehouseofvines on October 17, 2012
at 8:13 am
Exactly! It’s just this kind of forward thinking that I knew you’d bring to the office!
By: aediculaantinoi on October 17, 2012
at 8:19 am
You know, as honored as I would be to become AG, I’m pretty sure it would be a bad idea.
By: Michael Sebastian Lùx on October 18, 2012
at 11:10 am
…Which is pretty much the whole point of the present exercise, dear friend!
However, of the various folks I know within the overall pagan/polytheist/occultist/etc. persuasion, you’re certainly the lawyer-y-iest (in the positive senses!), or at least the most legal-savvy-minded, that I can think of, and thus you fit the bill for the part in this case. Sort of.
By: aediculaantinoi on October 18, 2012
at 12:23 pm
This is why they pay me the big bucks and why the Department of Fish and Wild Life is wondering about the sudden decrease in wild black-tail deer.
By: Michael Sebastian Lùx on October 18, 2012
at 12:46 pm