Sunday, November 27, 2016

FROM PRESIDENT ELECT TO DICTATOR ELECT




Despite the dangerous and tumultuous times in which we find ourselves, never forget:

AMERICA
Thy safeguard, Liberty,
The school shall ever be,
Our Nation's pride!
No tyrant hand shall smite,
While with encircling might
All here are taught the Right
With Truth allied.
         
Do these words trigger an uneasiness or a niggling fear that something is very wrong with our country? It should. It is but a short leap for a President Elect to become a Dictator Elect. 


A DICTATOR CRAVES POWER AND PROMOTES NATIONALISM

A.HITLER blamed Germany’s problems on capitalists, communists and Jews after World War 1. HTLER’S Nazism represents extreme forms of Nationalism.

B. TRUMP blames Mexicans and Blacks for most of the violent crimes in our cities. Muslims are deemed terrorists because of their religion. TRUMP is a proponent of American Nationalism and has appointed Stephen Bannon 
(former head of  Breitbart News and Alt-Right Abettor) Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to his Cabinet.



A DICTATOR IS NARCISSTIC.

A.  Stalin was so preoccupied with having power, control, prestige and vanity that he jailed and sent to Gulags anyone who disagreed with him.

B. Trump lashes out at anyone who disagrees with him or those whom he believes offends him. He uses Twitter to avenge himself and shame others. He hires (appoints) those who like and support him and fires people who don't.


A DICTATOR CONTROLS THE MILITARY

A.Francisco Franco created military tribunals that led to tens of thousands of executions and imprisonment.

B. Trump wants to strengthen the military so that it's "so big and so strong and so great" that "nobody's going to mess with us.”  Trump  supports using torture as an intelligence-gathering or counterterrorism tool.


A DICTATOR CONTROLS THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
B .Trump stated, “If we don't eliminate The Department of Education completely, we certainly need to cut its power and reach. We should have school choice (voucher system) and  include charter and magnet schools. Also I am cutting education spending and eliminating unions.

A DICTATOR ERADICATES CIVIL LIBERTIES AND PUNISHES ALL FORMS OF DISSENT


A. Labor unions under FIDEL CASTRO lost the right to strike. CASTRO abolished independent newspapers, persecuted religious institutions, and removed opposition to his rule.


B. TRUMP vilifies reporters and news organizations “ -- as "dishonest," "not good people," "sleazy, and among the worst human beings he has ever met.”
And he vowed the White House briefing room would be just as combative as the Trump Tower lobby, … should he ascend to the Oval Office.”
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TRUMP would, “Bar Syrian refugees from entering the country and kick out any who are already living here.”
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TRUMP would “Heavily surveil mosques in the United States. Trump has said he's open to the idea of closing some mosques.”

 TRUMP would deport all illegal immigrants.


TRUMP IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR DEMOCRACY

In 1977,  former president NIXON remarked to David Frost, “That when the President does it (takes any action), that means it is not illegal.”

 (CNN)During his meeting with The New York Times, President-elect Donald Trump sent shivers down the spines of many observers when he announced that, "The law's totally on my side, the President can't have a conflict of interest.” Nixon didn’t believe he had any boundaries as President of the United States either.

As aberrant as Trump’s philosophy and abhorrent demeanor are, there is one 
quote that should send shivers down the spines of all people. TRUMP forewarns that, “(He) will be  unpredictable. "No one is going to touch us, because I'm so unpredictable.”  Point taken.



John Donne (1572-1631), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII: Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris:

"Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."



 Live simply.
Speak gently.
Love unconditionally.

                      





READ MORE











http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/26/opinions/checking-and-balancing-president-trump-zelizer/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist



http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/11/23/in-impassioned-defense-of-press-freedom-christiane-amanpour-condemns-trumps-treatment-of-journalists/
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/31/politics/donald-trump-veterans-announcement/


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