Wednesday, December 12, 2018

America's Authoritarian


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We just saw a clear example of our President trying desperately to protect his strength by threatening to close down the government if he doesn’t get his way. We saw him demonizing his enemies in the Oval Office by insulting our highest Democratic   leaders and we are witnessing him dismantling our institutions that are there to protect our environment and safety. Donald Trump is a classic authoritarian.
He loves the other authoritarian leaders popping up across the globe who also like to appear to be strong leaders by having lavish military parades that he wanted tax payers to pay for in America. He is happy to deaminize immigrants blanketing calling them all criminals. He has twitter feuds with just about anyone who dares to analyze his erratic behavior. Trump praises evil Dictators like Duarte who kills folks on the streets who might   be doing drugs with no judge or jury. Trump tweeted a slogan that Mussolini used that said, “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep” Very much like Hitler’s mantra.
I guess he thinks Mussolini is just an Italian sheep. Trump won and is still running as an unapologetic strong man and his supporters love it. They all have photos on their social media pages posing with weapons, their monster trucks in the background and disrespectfully draping their walls and clothing in the American flag that only belongs to be flowing high and proud on a flag pole or draped over the coffin of a dead soldier. Luckily he has NOT succeeded in ruining everything that America stands for yet.
He has NOT managed to shut down the Mueller Investigation that is trying to protect America’s voting that will not be corrupted by foreign powers. He   has NOT been able to end birthright citizenship yet. He has NOT been able to ban the free American press from the White House although he has tried to do so. He has tried to alter the American Way by hiring our Justice Department   leader based on loyalty to him. He has appointed two justices to the Supreme Court based on loyalty to him. He has fired judges, FBI and CIA officials based on loyalty to him. Yes, our democracy and democracies globally are in danger of extinction by authoritarian men ruling successfully globally oppressing and controlling innocent people robbing them of their rights.
The scales of justice shows a blindfolded lady holding up a scale. The image means that she is blindfolded to discrimination and will put on the scale all the pieces of evidence to have a just and fair outcome. There is NO justice with an authoritarian leader. It is just their way and some of them represent the largest countries on the planet.  Right NOW Russia, China, the Philippines, Venezuela, Brazil, North Korea, Turkey, Hungary and Italy have authoritarian leaders. Our Constitution is the   only thing holding Trump back. We must never have a leader who threatens his own people with jail, torture, putting political opponents into exile, destroying the free press and encouraging a civil war over a border wall.






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