This is getting scary in America. Trump is attempting to create a force of Secret Police like the Gestapo or the Schutzstaffel or the KGB. I admit that I thought he was just a buffoon at first. But he's proving himself to be much smarter and much more dangerous than anyone could have suspected.
True, all tyrants' reigns of terror end eventually, and if we are lucky, he won't have more than two terms. If we're really lucky, he won't be voted back into office, and with the best of luck, this asshole will be impeached and sent to prison for treason.
But I tend not to believe in luck. And the reality is starting to look like Trump's attempt to turn the US into a fascist state. This is how Hitler did it in Germany. He eroded their rights one at a time, so slowly that people didn't notice until it was too late. He appealed to their fears and their prejudices.
And Nazi Germany is what came out of it. This is what's coming out of Trump's so called presidency.
On the upside, though. Climate Change is about to wipe us out... so we're all good.
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It has been my observation that the far right has gathered more and more support starting back during the Bush years and then really growing during the Obama administration. Trump seems to be the culmination of that trend. I often say Republicans are dogs (pack animals) and Democrats are cats (loners). Democrats can't seem to get a plan that everybody can get behind. Republicans are strongly behind God, guns and greed. They seem to be completely destroying America with only one-third of the population supporting their bills and their President.
I don't see this government getting any better. It's far too easy for the wealthy to corrupt the 500 or so people running our government. At this point, especially with the great political divide, only secession or bloody revolution are gonna solve the corruption problems we have now.
I have never been scared like I am now. So many things I thought we could trust in have proven untrustworthy. Our systems are threatened to their core. It feels like everything could crash around us. Trump instigates, the GOP enables, the Dems are irrelevant, the (reliable) press is vilified (and they also enable...), social media propagates all sorts of foolishness, and people I have long respected espouse idiotic ideas. Where do we find hope? Will people wake up in time? How do I need to wake up also, how am I contributing to the mess? My mind is awhirl...
There is only a thin veil of common sense and decency in our so-called "civilized" first world countries.
Someone has to stop him-I keep hoping his plane crashes or someone takes him out. He is the new Hitler but ignorant piece of shit.
I can only agree with you. Daily there is something new to divide us and he is isolating us from the rest of the world and I think it is a calculated move. Everyone he appoints to a cabinet post is either incompetent or against the very department they lead. Bannon may not be lounging in the WH anymore but he is someone interested in dismantling the government and that is what is happening. I think waiting for impeachment is too long. He is incompetent to hold office and the people in the government that can exercise the checks and balances are not making the necessary moves
I think proving him mentally unfit using the 25th would be more expeditious. I can't condone assasination