Machiavelli for dummies

Machiavelli for Dummies by J.B. Pravda

An avid student of history and its failed aspirants to world
domination, Ghengis Smythe, himself descended from the great Khan
himself, was certain that he had found the fatal flaw in all their
otherwise complex and grandiose schemes: the easier path had been
overlooked in all cases-----organize and lead, like so many sheep, the
really stupid, whose numbers, he had divined, were enormous. Simplicity
itself, he soon learned that his plan for a such a grassroots cause,
his League of the Painfully Stolid &; Stupid, itself had a fatal
flaw: his vast army of the mentally devoid, incapable of grasping
crucial concepts such as "yes", "OK" and, most disheartening of all,
"left/right", soon resembled nothing but a moblike rabble. Not easily
dissuaded from his goal, the Honorable G. Smythe went on to make his
mark on history, nonetheless, recognized by it as the inventor of the
modern political party.