Bingowings said:
If you aren't ready for an all powerful monarch (it's always the monotheists who complain about this I notice) why don't you make a machine President?
It would be much more efficient and you wouldn't need to re-elect it as it could be programmed to move with the times.
They've already tried that: http://youtube.com/watch?v=K7y2xPucnAo