CASSANDRA WARNING

The weather here is bitter.  We have had less snow this year than last, but have below-normal temperatures.     Temps this week are in the low double and single numbers, and we have a wind advisory for the entire week with winds from 15 to 40, resulting in windchills well below zero.  

 

It is definitely time to stay indoors and read a good mystery.

 

I can’t allow myself to be disturbed by politics this late in my life.  I have quit watching the news since Trump’s election, but unfortunately, I don’t live in a vacuum.

 

 Trump is talking about invading Denmark (one of our NATO allies) and taking Greenland by military force, annexing Canada as our 51^st state by crashing their economy, and taking the Panama Canal by force.

 

 We soon will have a mentally unbalanced man as President of the United States.  If you know history the parallels to Nazi Germany in the forties are chilling.  The only thing lacking is racial eugenics.

 

The scary thing is, just as in Germany, the majority of the population supports this psychotic con man.

 

WARNING WARNING WARNING! 

 

He does not plan to give up the Presidency after his four-year term in office.

 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

AMERICA IN PERIL?

  

“Fascism originates from aggressive Nationalism and massive intolerance for minorities.”

Origin by Dan Brown. 

A dictionary definition of Fascism:

A form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce. 

Nazism was a German form of Fascism that emerged in the 1920.

The New Your Review of Books, June 28, publishes a review of a books on Nazi Germany, titled It Can Happen Here.   It is a fairly easy reach to make a comparison to the U.S. under the Trump administration. 

The premise of the piece is that during the Hitler years Germany was a nation gone mad.   It wasn’t a tyrannical few at the top, but a mass movement – a willingness of people to be governed by surprise.

  

Nazis attacked freedom of speech, treated critics as enemies of the state, they dissolved the checks and balances of government branches, they vilified newspapers using the term (Lugenpresse) lying press and they waged a constant attack on Jews and Romany declaring them morally degenerate.

  

The atrocities of the Nazi era is the brush Hitler has been painted with; but he was actually an avatar of the people who enthusiastically supported him.

Nazism was a movement of the people - of “aggressive nationalism and massive intolerance for minorities.”    This is also the mantra of the Republican Party base.

You can bet your ass this man voted for Trump.

It can’t happen here?

The Ol’Buzzard