Fiction books have been written about a dystopian America led by a charismatic sociopath and a cabal of oligarchs that serve as his minions.
Fiction often precedes reality. Fahrenheit 451, 1984 – it couldn’t happen here!
But it is happening.
The asylum
has been taken over by the inmates; Congress has relinquished its role as a check-and-balance
on the executive; the legal system has become corrupted from the top; and law
firms are capitulating to executive pressure.
You don’t
have to burn books when you can defund libraries. You don’t have to tell the truth when your
oligarchs own the news media. You don’t
have to abide by the rule of law when the top judicial court of the land is
your proxy.
Laws, rules,
and norms no longer matter when they constrain Dear Leader.
We are
entering a new dystopian America, and we are advancing with our eyes wide
open.
It happened
in Germany in 1938, and in Turkey and Hungary in the last three decades. We are in the midst of an American coup led by
a conman supported by half the population.
Trump will disenfranchise
or outright prevent the mid-term elections. Supported by his MAGA minions and a Republican
Party wishing to retain power, Trump will not leave office at the end of his
term.
A Fascist
dictatorship brought to you by American oligarchy, individuals seeking power, the
religious right, the uneducated, and the ignorant.
The damage
is already too extensive. We can’t go
back and make it right.
Welcome to
the new America.
the Ol'Buzzard
It has been rightly pointed out that the "scrubbing" of government websites to suppress evidence of "DEI" is simply digital bookburning.
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ReplyDeleteThey're also gutting the National Endowment for the Humanities. All awarded grants have been cancelled. The Humanities Council here in Michigan lost over 90 percent of its funding a few days ago.
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