It seems like Superman could dart around and listen to everyone's negotiations and use his x-ray vision to read their secret documents, and then figure out if a solution exists that is workable for everyone. If not, then he can point out where the irreconcilable differences lie and then listen to a debate about which side should win. Then he can enact regime change to the other side until he gets a regime that will resolve those differences.

But it points out the fundamental flaw with a Superman-run world. Superman has no need for democracy, and relying on Superman to resolve world problems is essentially a one-world government with a dictator. Maybe he's a benevolent dictator, but he's still a dictator. Even if Superman can indeed solve the world's problems, he would do so at the cost of our self-rule.

Maybe a benevolent dictator would be just what we need.

It would circumvent corruption and delusion that we actually have a say. What superman says is the final word, so just take it.

Superman would be a god that people could actually see.

He was a founding member of the Avengers and saved the Earth many times over, but that argument aside, he does have superPOWERS which is what the thread is about.

I, for one, welcome our new overlords.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKbFb6TPVEA

Dibs.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...1&postcount=26
http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...2&postcount=53
http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...6&postcount=93

Well I wouldn't want to be THE dictator. That's too much work. I just want to be a dictator crony.

Excellent. Every dictator needs a loyal crony with no real aspirations to ever lead a coup to become dictator.

Every Cheney needs a Bush?

That was more Pinky & the Brain...

Superman loves wearing a cape. Nuff said.

You just made Thomas Jefferson cry.

No, the corrupt made Thomas Jefferson cry.

If Thomas Jefferson saw congress of today SELLING their votes to the highest bidder he would do more than cry. Seppuku.