[Billthedrill]

That would require a little more than a "plan". It would require an infallible crystal ball, and any possessing one of those probably should be President.

Machiavelli was a Florentine patriot and a believer in republican government, by the way. As a role model you could do a lot worse.

[Mach9]

True. A descriptionist, not a prescriptivist.