!!!!***!!! “Trump transforms Ja.6 narrative” [D.Barry, A.Feuer; 1/6/25; New York Times]: “Violent, unprecedented assault on American democracy has become what president-elect calls a “day of love”…he and his loyalists have laundered the history of Jan.6..as his allies in Congress and the media play down the attack and redirected blame to left-wing plants, Democrats and even the government..violent rioters..somehow became martyrs…What happened and why seemed beyond debate..Tens of thousands of hours of video footage. thousands of seized cellphones..the largest digital crime in history…But sand was already being thrown in the eyers of history.”

*** “ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why would we let them have ideas.”
{ Soviet Russia dictator. Joseph Stalin }

1] “Reminders of Jan. 6 attack fading” [Mary Clare Jalonick; Assoc. Press]: “..many Republicans try to downplay it, echoing..Trump’s claims that the carnage of that day is overblown and that the rioters are victims. In some ways, it’s like the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, that shook the foundations of American democracy never happened.”
“Congress passed a law in March 2022 to require “an honorific plaque listing the names of all officers of the United States Capitol Police, the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, and other Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies and protective entities who responded to the violence that occurred at the United states Capitol on January 6, 2021….But almost three years later, there is no plaque.” [***and no explanations!!!]
“In the days after the siege of the Capitol, Republican condemnation was near-universal…Then-House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy..said a week later that Trump “bears responsibility” for the attack. But McCarthy soon made amends, traveling within weeks to Florida to meet Trump..a fateful decision, kicking off Trump’s return to power.”

*** “Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.” [Adolf Hitler]

2] YOU can review all reports of January 6, 2021 – LIVE, that 300 million Americans saw with their own eyes LIVE on January 6, 2021. YOU can listen to reports made LIVE by police who were attacked, injured. But, YOU can’t listen to some police reports – because they DIED, in the line of duty, defending YOUR national Capitol. In those LIVE recordings, YOU can observe some rioters carrying CONFEDERATE flags – an apt symbol for the treason that occurred.
YOU can search out some of the hundreds of confessions by now shamed rioters, some possibly in YOUR area. YOU can search court proceedings from all over America leading to 1,250 convictions – and what they were convicted for.

***. “Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.” [Soviet Russia leader. Lenin]

3] For perspective: “Erasing History..How Fascists Rewrite The Past To Control The Future” [Jason Stanley, 2024]: “Democracy requires a common understanding of reality, a shared view of what HAS happened, that informs ordinary citizens’ decisions about what SHOULD happen, now and in the future. Authoritarians target this shared understanding and leave us unmoored, resentful, and confused. By setting us against each other, authoritarians present themselves as the sole solution.”

*** “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” [George Orwell]

4] YOU can research recent attempts to rewrite American history, rewrite science, for political and ideological gains, for economic gains. THE greatest, BIGGEST LIE, in human history is climate change denial – in spite of the fact OUR world is changing – for worse – right in front of YOUR eyes.
Rewriting American history is done to maintain control for certain groups – by telling YOUR children what happened in the Americas, 1492 forward, didn’t happen or didn’t happen the way that’s inconvenient for certain people. Or, in 1981-2025 America, that things the FAR RIGHT finds “bad” or inconvenient are “fake news.”
Examples abound, especially in states controlled by Republicans. Attempts have been made to say American slavery “wasn’t that bad,” that Blacks actually had “a good deal,” that their owners [!!!] treated them with great “loving” care, etc.
YOUR children should NOT know about religion-justified “Jim Crow” segregation, 1865-1970s. YOUR children should NOT know the second most victimized group in 1619-19xx South was “poor white trash,’ many of whom died in the 1861-65 Civil War protecting the top 1% slave owners. YOUR children should NOT learn the slave-owning South [up to 2025] has historically been THE most poor, least democratic section.

YOUR children should NOT be taught about genocide conducted against native Americans from 1620 forward – the murders, massacres, broken treaties, government Indian boarding schools young native Americans were forced to attend – to WIPE OUT THEIR CULTURE, land theft, “The Trail of Tears,” the “reservations” they were forcibly confined to – the poverty, alcoholism, unemployment, female abuse, etc. that resulted.
For some, it will be inconvenient to teach YOUR children about the WW II Navajo “Code Talkers” who helped win the Pacific war, taking part in every assault the Marines conducted, sending messages in their language the Japanese couldn’t translate. [“Navajo Weapon,” S. McClain; “Yankee Samurai,” Joseph Harrington]

YOUR children might also NOT learn about Japanese-American Nisei who “helped shorten the Pacific War by at least two years, saving over 1 million lives.” Nisei linguists participated in EVERY battle from the Aleutians to Okinawa – translating, communicating, in intelligence. This in spite of 120,000 fellow Japanese-Americans locked up in concentration camps. [“Honor by Fire…Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific”, Lyn Crost]

YOUR children might also NOT learn about the extent of misogyny, persecution, restraints and limitations employed against American females, 1620-2025. NOT discuss “barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.’ NOT discuss the Salem Witchcraft Trials [all but one prosecutor a minister]. NOT discuss WHY American women couldn’t vote until 1920. NOT discuss “the glass ceiling” and wage differentials; and MUCH, much more…..

*** “Anybody who doesn’t take the truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
[Albert Einstein}

YOUR children might NOT discuss the war against American workers, 1865-2025. NOT learn about workers being persecuted, fired, jailed, murdered, for trying to form unions. They might NOY learn about WHY “American” companies, 1970s-2025, have either threatened to move factories, or DID move factories out of America to avoid paying living wages, avoid taxes, avoid regulations; bring in foreign workers at lower wages.
YOUR children might NOT learn that in 2025 America, billionaire owners refuse to negotiate with unions; that billionaire/millionaire capitalists, including manufacturing, have greatly inflated the ratio of employee-owner income in THEIR favor [ like from 30-40-50 to 1 to current levels of 200-250-300 to 1]. That at the height of American dominance, America had 1 billionaire [maybe] in 1956, and NOW there are over 750, not to ignore centi-millionaires

YOUR children might NOT learn that America was NEVER a “Christian Nation.” That there are MANY quotes from the Founding Fathers [!!! no “Founding Mothers”!!!!] in ABSOLUTE OPPOSITION to the idea of ANY kind of theocracy. Indeed, one of the Founders’ 4 primary fears was the misuse of religion. Start with “The Establishment Clause” [Leonard Levy, 1986]. Research Baptist Isaac Backus and Baptist John Leland; Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson; the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom.
Research 1775-1800 state constitutions on religion [“Faith of the Founders,” Edwin S. Gaustad; 1987-1993-2011] – especially 1776 North Carolina, Articles XXXIV. 8 states BANNED an active minister from their government!!! 4 states banned a “religious oath of office” [Article VI !!!]. 10 states prohibited an “established church” [Bill of Rights !!!].
***!!!***!!! 1640s forward – “separation of church and state” is OLDER THAN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION !!!!!!!!!!

*** “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
[ Soren Kirkegaard ]

5]. And. THEN !!! – there is the daily rewriting of history, science, and much else – by the reactionary billionaire-funded RIGHT WING FAKE NEWS EMPIRE of radio, TV, internet, books, magazines, “studiers,” “commentators. A MAJOR reason WHY Americans are divided and confused is the BIG LIES emitted EVERY day by the FAR RIGHT communications NETWORK to brainwash good Americans. They have succeeded

The goal: a PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY. They’ve succeeded in moving America to “conservative” [actually REACTIONARY] positions on many things, and now, we’ve elected THE most unprincipled, amoral, greedy, liar, in presidential history to a second term. He will be surrounded by oligarchs enacting “PROJECT 2025” goals.
Whatever the Trump administration does, it will be “justified” by rewriting history, science, laws, the Constitution, American traditions, American culture. It is KNOWN – Trump’s tariffs, taxes, deportation scheme – DON’T ADD. UP. Farmers, business people, economists, tax experts have all testified against them. Because THEY WILL INCREASE YOUR COSTS!!! Trump already reneged [Nov. 25, 2024] on YOUR grocery bills being lower!!!!!

*** “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of men who can fabricate it.” [Hannah Arendt]

We are disgraced. Once our president – Washington – was renowned for his character and judgment. WE have elected a “man” renowned for his lack of character and judgment. Washington prevented a revolt by military officers, “our” recently elected president ENCOURAGED & STARTED A REVOLT against the U.S. government; still lies about it.

Once our president – Lincoln – said “With malice toward none, with charity for all..” WE have elected a “man” renowned for his lack of charity, and above all – for his malice toward many.

Once ur president – FDR – was called a “traitor to his class,” the wealthy, because he REALLY tried to help “the forgotten man.” WE have elected a “man” renowned for his TALK about helping ordinary people – like YOU, but his POLICIES favor the rich and connected

Once our president – Eisenhower – said “May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. WE have elected a “man” who tolerates NO dissent from his “wisdom” and who demands loyalty to himself above all.

Once our president – Republican Hoover – said “The trouble with capitalism is capitalists. they’re too damn greedy.” WE have elected a “man” who said “You can’t be too greedy.” And LIVES that creed.

Once our president – Republican Ford – said “Truth is the glue that holds government together.” WE have elected a “man” who said over 30,000 documented lies as “our” president; whose entire public life has been built on DOCUMENTED falsehoods; who for the last decade has won or been a top candidate for the Politifact “Big Lie of the Year; who objected to to his 2024 campaign speeches being fact-checked.

Once our president – Republican Coolidge – said. “The governments of the past could fairly be characterized as devices for maintaining in perpetuity the place and position of certain privileged classes, without any ultimate protections for the rights of the people. The Government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.” WE have elected a “man” who is building a government of billionaires; ho has selected two of them to create “government efficiency – who’ve said they’ll cut $2 trillion fromYOUR government’s budget [which cannot be done without cutting things like Social Security &Medicare]; a president whose $1 domestic “achievement” was an immoral, anti-democratic 2017 tax cut for the rich which he wants to renew in spite of its responsibility for 25% of national debt, trillions more if extended.

Once our president – Republican Theodore Roosevelt – said “No people is wholly civilized where s distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse>”. WE have elected a “man” who ORCHESTRATED a plot to steal the 2020 election, then told THE BIG LIE that it wasn’t he – who lost by 7 million votes!!! – but his opponents who’d stolen the election. The Capitol was trashed, police were killed & injured, hundreds convicted of rioting said they’d “been called” by this “man’ to “stop the steal.” !!!

Once our president Cleveland – said “Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government; but the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil.” WE have just elected a “man” who talks about “the deep state,” who’s vowed to fire government officials who dare discipline him and his businesses, who nominated a “loyalist” to run America’s to law enforcement agency [and that man vowed to clean house of disloyal people]; who put far right zealots on a severely corrupted “supreme court” who have undermined American democracy with lying decisions.

II. We are disgraced – because we are damaging and killing our own children. We tolerate four plagues that have damaged children here and around the world: climate crisis denial; social media poisoning their minds; gun violence; censorship.
Read the New York Times Magazine for November 10, 2024 for young people’s stories from Peru, Bangladesh, Tanzania; Greece; Alberta; Nigeria; New Zealand on the impact of climate crisis NOW and for their entire lives.
Read “After Babel..How Social Media Dissolved The Mortar of Society And Made America Stupid” [Jonathan Haidt; May, 2022; The Atlantic. Read “The Dumbest Generation..How the Digital Age Stupifies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future” [English professor Mark Bauerlein]
Watch the DVD “Cyberbully” [ABC Family]; then research the number of children committing suicide and going to doctors for mental health help; spending 4-6-8 hours daily on social media because they’ve BECOME ADDICTED.
December 18, 2024, Washington Post: more than 31,000 K-12 students experienced a 2024 school shooting; 426 school shootings since 2/20/99 Columbine High. December 17, 2024, New York Times: guns are the leading cause of deaths of children in 2020 and 2021
An elementary teacher reports these children’s questions about an active shooter: “If I was in the bathroom, should I jump out the window?; “How will we get to our homes if we don’t know how to cross the street yet?; “What if I can’t find my teacher and all the classroom doors are locked?”; “If the shooter came into the room and killed people, would you have to go home by yourself?” What “civilized” society FORCES its children to HAVE to ask such questions ?????
Read “Book Bans Harm Kids” [ Editors; December, 2024; Scientific American ]: “Censoring what children read deprives them of reality and the chance to feed their curiosity and develop empathy…Under the guise of protecting children from harm, they vow to defund public libraries and alter school curricula. But its the book bans themselves that cause the most harm, robbing youngsters of opportunities to think critically, explore ideas and learn about experiences different from their own. The people responsible for moving books from classrooms and libraries are trying to limit the flow of information. Their efforts aim to undermine democracy..create..young people who will not question authority..”

A “Our Children Are Drowning” letter [Minnesota Star Tribune; 12/21/24]: “Our children are drowning – emotionally, socially, and mentally – and we’re standing on the shore, reacting only when they go under…We must face a difficult reality; Our children are not learning what it means to connect, to belong, to feel seen and supported…We need to rethink how we raise, teach, and nurture our children.”
***Our children are drowning because this “society” has STOLEN THEIR CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE.

III. VIGILANCE
*** “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.” [Wendell Phillips]
*** “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a low extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.” [Robert W. Hutchins]
*** “We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentration in the hands of a few. but we cannot have both.” [Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis]

!!!!! Educate YOURSELF !!!!!
1}. Research pre and post-1980 American income, wealth, tax statistics. Much happens because of dramatic post-1980 changes – CORRUPTIONS -actually. From 1947-73, America – by DESIGN – had balance in those statistics. We had rich people, what we DIDN’T have, was obscene greed, allowed by law. The lower 90% struggles – BY DESIGN – because the top 1% – about 3.5 million – live in previously unimagined luxury [accept for the Gilded Age of 1865-1900 – which they’re trying to recreate] . A totally CORRUPT “supreme court” has facilitated this with immoral decisions like “Citizens United.” As long as we have current “campaign finance” existing – NOTHING will improve for the lower 90%.
2]. “Democracy in Chains” [Nancy MacLean, 2017]: ‘..the single most powerful and least understood threat to democracy today: the attempt by the billionaire-backed radical right to undo democratic governance…a stealth bid to reverse-engineer all of America, at both state and national levels, back to the political economy and oligarchic governance of midcentury Virginia…”
3] “Dark Money…The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right” [Jane Mayer, 2016 – or – see “Dark Money DVD, directed by Kimberly Reed.
4]. “Evil Geniuses”. [Kurt Andersen, 2020]: ‘…the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs, the superrich, and right wing zealots, the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled. the clock was turned back on a century of economic progress, making greed good, workers powerless, and the market all powerful while weaponizing nostalgia, lifting up an oligarchy..”
5]. “Perfectly Legal”. [d.C. Johnston, 2003]: “The tax system is becoming a tool to turn the American dream..into an impossible goal for tens of millions of Americans…used to create a nation where fewer stable jobs and less secure retirement income…used by the rich..to shift risks off themselves and unto everyone else…perhaps worst of all, our tax system now forces most Americans to subsidize the lifestyles of the very rich..”
6] “Erasing History..How Fascists Rewrite The Past To Control The Future”. [Jason Stanley, 2024}. – just like the fictitious “Big Brother,’ and sending “bad” history “down the memory hole”!!!!! – explains how much of the FAR RIGHT’s war on education, their censoring “bad’ books and “bad” information – so THEY can LIE to YOU and YOUR children.
7]. “How Democracies Die” [S. Levitsky 7 D. Ziblatt, 2018]: “The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. the bad news is that , b y electing Trump, we have already passed the first one.”
8] “The Death of Truth..Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump” [M. Kakutani, 2018 – Pulitzer Prize winning literary critic]: “truth decay” – the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life, fake science, fake history, fake Americans on Facebook, fake followers; much more fakery. – outside of crooks – most of it by the FAR RIGHT

*** Mr. and Mrs. lower 90%: DO SOMETHING!…..SPEAK UP!…REFUTE LIES!…VOTE! WHY? The war, identified by billionaire Warren Buffett – is directed at YOU, YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN, it is an ORGANIZED THEFT of the 1947-73 golden American middle class prosperity: shipping jobs overseas, virulent hostility toward ANY labor union, BUYING LEGISLATION in states and Washington. As Nobel Prize in economic winner Joe Stiglitz said – the post-1980 inequality DIDN’T JUST HAPPEN, it was DELIBERATELY planned and executed. Do REAL research – mostly off the I-net: the Reagan, Bush II, Trump regimes have permanently damaged American democracy – BY DESIGN. Speak up, act – or it WILL get worse… for YOUR children and grandchildren…….time is running out on YOU

*** “Never let yourself be persuaded that any one great man, any one leader, is necessary o the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 155 million followers, it will no longer be America.”
[ Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower ]

1] “Trump gives ‘Person of the Year’ interview to Time magazine” [Meryl Kornfield; 12/13/24; Washington Post]: “Trump hedges on food price promise”. YOU might want to consider: Previous Time “Person of the Year” persons included Vladimir Putin, Joseph Stalin [2!!!], Adolf Hitler.

***”The best index to a person’s character is [a] how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and [b] how he treats people who can’t fight back.” [ Abigail Van Buren, “Dear Abby ]

2]. “Justice” – “Justice delayed is justice denied.” {William E. Gladstone}
A] Questions??? How much money, and from whom???, has Donald J. Trump spent trying to delay [ EVADE] justice – the accountability for his violations of SEVERAL U.S. laws, in several courts ?????
B]. A long-standing law: documents involving ANY president during his term ARE NOT his personal property. Pence, Biden, Trump were all discovered to have violated this – Pence and Biden returned materials – TRUMP REFUSED.
C] Trump was RECORDED making phone calls [a]. to Ukraine asking for “dirt” on the Bidens, [b] to Georgia asking for 12,000 more votes. In what world are these “legitimate presidential Constitutional functions ?????
D] “Material fro Russia probe went missing” {M.Haberman, J.Barnes; l1/16/23; New York Times]: “Disappearance of highly classified intel was during Trumps last days in office.”

***. “There can be no equal justice when the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.”
[ Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black ]

3] Pardons – mercy, or, ?????
A] “Trump Pardoned Them: Now They’re Helping Him” [B.Reinhard, M.Roig-Franzia, C.Morse; 12/3/23; Washington Post}: “Never before had a president used his constitutional clemency power to free or forgive so many people who could be useful to his future political efforts.”
B] “How a Troubling Trump Pardon Hurt a Major Criminal Inquiry” [M.Schmidt, M.Haberman, J.Swan, A.Feuer; 11/26/23; New York Times]: “Nearly three years later, the consequences of Mr. Braun’s commutation are becoming clearer..dealt a substantial blow to an ambitious criminal investigation..”
C]. “Jan. 6 rioters looking forward to ‘coming home’ [M.Kunzelman; 11/8/24; Assoc. Press]: “Rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are celebrating Trump’s victory and hoping he makes good on his campaign trail promise to pardon them..More than 1,000 defendants have pleaded guilty or been convicted..”
D]. “Biden mulls preemptive pardons” [T.Pager, M.Kornfield; 12/6/24; Washington Post]: Talk focuses on potential political targets of retribution by Trump”

***”Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1%, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important…our democracy is being put at peril.” [Nobel Prize winner Joe Stiglitz, “The Price Of Inequality]

4] Retribution – “Whoever has shown no mercy, he shall have judgment without mercy.” [James 2″ 13]
A]. “Trump’s picks support retribution” [{A.Blake; 12/8/24; Washington Post Weekly]: “At least nine choices for senior posts have made clear they want to get rid or of target opponents.”
B]. “Trump’s Foes Fear His Retribution..Pointing to legal threats, some say efforts for revenge have already begun” [H.Knowles, C.Itkowitz; 12/21/24; Washington Post]: “Trump’s first impulse is to go after people who cross him…that’s what’s going to happen, and what’s happening now..The goal ..is to create a climate of intimidation..”

***. “Indeed, revenge is always the pleasure of a paltry, feeble, tiny mind.” [ Juvenal ]

5] Payback
A] “Trump boosters expect big returns on their investment” [E.Lipton; 11/18/24; New York Times] : “Executives who gave millions stand to profit…limit the reach of federal regulations on A.I….make room for cryptocurrencies to thrive…ease the antitrust crackdown on big tech companies…buy more military drones…don’t raise taxes on billionaires..” [ did I miss it here, or, is aid to Mr. & Mrs. lower 90% NOT under consideration !?!?!?!!!!!!!!???????]
B] “Trump Family Business Is Preparing To Profit. [E. lipton, B.Protess, D.Yaffe-Bellany; 12/6/24; New York Times]: “It looks like Trump is panning to flagrantly violate key anticorruption provisions of the Constitution again, said Zephyr Teachout, ” a Fordham Law School professor.
C] “Trump picks crypto advocate Atkins to run SEC” [M.Goldstein, D.Yaffe-Bellany,; 12/5/24; New York Times]: “Ex-Securities and Exchange Commissioner favors looser regulation of digital assets”
D]. “Tycoons of Tech Steer Transition For Trump Team…Touching Nearly Every Department Despite Little Experience” [T.Schliefer, M.Haberman, J.Swan; l2/8/24; New York Times]]: .”…shaping hiring decisions and even conducting interviews for senior-level jobs..one of the most conflict-ridden presidential transitions in modern history…clashing mightily with the notion that Mr. Trump’s populism is all about helping the working man.”

*** ‘…the single most powerful and least understood threat to democracy today: the attempt by..billionaire-backed radical right to undo democratic governance..a stealth bid to reverse-engineer all of America..back to the political economy of oligarchic governance of mid-century Virginia..” [ Nancy MacLean – “Democracy in Chains” ]

6]. ??? Co-President Musk ???
A] Headlines, 12/19-12/21/24: “Shutdown looms as GOP kills bill”. {Washington Post], and, “Scrambling in D.C. to avert shutdown” [Assoc. Press}: “..Musk boasted on X ..after he spent the day blasting the legislation..” [12/19]; “..Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk, who called the legislative plays from afar..” [12/21]
B]. “Will Musk have the guts to take on insurers?” [J.Burcum; 12/21/24; Minn Star Tribune]: “..it’ll be very interesting to see if Musk and the Trump administration have the courage to take on AHIP..Said Richard Kronick..If Republicans are serious about cutting spending, Medicare Advantage is the most fertile ground to be paying attention to because of thr overpayments..”
C]. “Elon Musk blasts SEC probe into Twitter”. [12/14/24; T.Romm, F.Sidddiqui; Washington Post]: “..Musk has reprised many of his public rebukes on the SEC, an agency whose trajectory he may now shape as the leader of the “Department of Government Efficiency..”

***. “In whose delusional mind is democracy made ‘better’ by allowing wealthy people to control more of it.”
Jon Stewart – in “On 1984,” edited by James Daley ]

7] Trump’s Enablers and Accomplices
A] “There’s a Reason Trump Has Friends in High Places” [J.Bouie; 6/16/24; New York Times]: “Capital..tries to have it both ways..freeloads off public power…thirst for profit periodically tempts some fractions..to rebel against public power…these business leaders have come to believe..’the threat to capitalism from the Democrats is more concerning than the threat to democracy from Trump.'”
B] “Trump is Nothing Without Accomplices” { S.Levitsky, D.Ziblatt; 9/10/23; New York Times }: “Individual autocrats..are never enough to wreck a democracy. Democracy’s assassins always have accomplices among mainstream politicians.. ˇhe greatest threat to our democracy comes..from the ordinary politicians..who protect and enable him.”
C]. “The GOP’s war on arithmetic”. [C.Rampell; 12/15/24; Washington Post Weekly]: ‘..[the Republican Party]..is near unanimous frustration with the pesky laws of arithmetic. That cutting taxes would reduce future tax revenue..perpetually aggrieves them..Republicans’ solution: invent a New Math…The CBO’s budget-scoring methods don’t support Crapo’s fiscal fantasies…Trump’s habit of torturing data until it confesses….Peter Navarro, tried to bully career statisticians into changing how they measured deficits…”
D] “Trump loyalists purging voter rolls”. [A.Berzon, N.Corasaniti; 3/14/24; New York Times]: “Activists targeting key states, Times discovered…targeted Democratic areas, relying on novel legal theories ..[with].. no grounding in fact..”

*** “Wherever Law ends Tyranny begins.” [ John Locke ]

8] SAVING AMERICAN. DEMOCRACY – What Barriers to Dictatorship Remain?
A]. “Will the Supreme Court Stand Up to Trump?” [S. Vladeck; 11/17/24; New York Times]: “The problem for the court – and for the republic – is that it’s going to be much harder for the justices to push back this time around, even if they want to..because of the sharp decline in public support..”
B] “What will the military do if Trump gives unconstitutional orders?” [ML Cavanaugh; 12/22/24; L.A. Times]: “Unfortunately, the answers aren’t straightforward.” [What’s “legal” and what’s “illegal”?}
C] “Will the Senate Save America From Trump’s Cabinet?” [J.Conason; 12/15/24; The Progressive Populist]: “If you were seeking to destroy the country, the Gabbard, FGaetz, and RFK Jr. picks were exactly the ones you’d make.”
D]. “GOP bloc curtails power of Trump” [C.Edmondson, A.Duehren; 12/22 24; New York Times]: “Something unusual happened last week after President-elect Donald Trump ordered House Republicans to back legislation raising the debt limit: Dozens refused.”
E] This leaves. YOU!!! Are YOU, fellow Americans, willing to speak out against destructive, anti-democratic. moves by His Excellency, Donald Trump ???
For perspective: less than one month after getting elected on his promise to IMMEDIATELY lower. YOUR grocery costs – he said that would be hard – meaning it. WASN’T GOING. TO. HAPPEN !!! Numerous economists, plus people in farming and business have repeatedly told us. – Trump’s tariffs WILL. RAISE. YOUR. COSTS.
Deporting ANY significant numbers of illegal migrants WILL RAISE YOUR COSTS because they’re NOW doing work Americans havw refused to do for decades. Cutting taxes on the already OBSCENELY RICH – will either/both – cut government services YOU rely upon and/or RAISE YOUR TAXES. – because Trump’s “numbers” DON’T ADD UP..
Economists, many others, tell YOU the Musk-Ramaswamy “government efficiency” fraud of cutting $2 trillion can ONLY be done by cutting things like SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE – unless they adequately fund the IRS so it can save over $1 trillion a year in taxes not paid; unless they reduce the national debt interest payments – so we aren’t WASTING $1.2 trillion a year in interest on that debt [CREATED PRIMARILY BY REPUBLICAN TAX CUTS]

*** “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of a private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in essence, is Fascism: ownership of Government by individual, by a group, or any other controlling private power.” [President Franklin D. Roosevelt]

*** “At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” [Abraham Lincoln]”

*** “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: Whenhe first appears, he is a protector.” [Plato]

1] Research “the 14 characteristics of fascism”:

1- powerful and continuing nationalism
2- disdain for human rights
3- identifying enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4- supremacy of the military
5- rampant sexism
6- controlled mass media
7- obsession with national security
8- religion and government are intertwined
9- corporate power is protected
10- labor power is suppressed
11- disdain for intellectuals and the arts
12- obsession with crime and punishment
13- rampant cronyism and corruption
14- fraudulent elections
****** Thanks to the “revenge of the empire” since 1980, America is well on the way toward achieving many FASCIST factors listed above – especially #3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13 – with Republicans/Far Right working very hard on achieving #14

***”People may start out with an initial prejudice against tyrants, but when tyrants or would-be tyrants treat them with adrenalin-releasing propaganda about the wickedness of their enemies – particularly of enemies weak enough to be persecuted – †hey are ready to follow [the tyrants] with enthusiasm.” [Aldous Huxley]

2]. Read: “The Conspiracy To End America…Five ways my old party is driving our democracy to autocracy” [Stuart Stevens – 25-year Republican lead strategist & media consultant]: “Whenever a democracy slides into autocracy, there are five critical elements at work: financiers, propagandists, support of a major party, legal theories to legitimize authoritarian acts, and shock troops.” YOU know all of these are at work NOW – YOU have seen it: the billionaires visibly out for Trump; the Far Right media echo chamber [TV, radio, I-net, “experts”, authors]: the Donald Trump [oops!!!] Republican “Party”; legal theories [the CORRUPT Roberts’ “supreme court”[???]. plus other legal groups & judges; January 6, 2021, plus various “militias” and armed men turning up at various public events…

*** It already almost happened in 1933 – Read “The Plot to Seize the White House,” by Jules Archer – the Jul-November, 1933 Right-Wing plot revealed by the McCormack-Dickstein Committee hearings and February 15, 1935 report.

*** “Of all the forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of the plutocracy.” [Theodore Roosevelt]

3]. Read: “Take Trump At His Word”. [New York Times Editorial; 10/27/24; Sunday Opinion]:
A- “Trump says he will use the Justice Department to punish people he doesn’t like. Believe him. In his own words…”
B- “Trump says he will round up and deport millions of immigrants. Believe him. In his own words…”
C- “Trump says he will deploy the American military against U.S. citizens. Believe him. In his own words…”
D- “Trump says he will allow vigilante violence to end crime. Believe him. In his own words…”
E- “Trump says he will order the military to strike foreign civilian targets if the United States is attacked.” Believe him..”
F- “Trump says he will punish blue states by withholding disaster relief. Believe him. In his own words…”
G- “Trump says he will use ideological tests to decide which public schools get federal money. Believe him…”
H- “Trump says he will abandon U.S. allies. Believe him. In his own words…”

*** “At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” [Abraham Lincoln]
*****. Lincoln didn’t know about fascism. He didn’t know that the party he helped form – would itself be the author of most of America’s post-1980 problems and controversies, virtually all the craziness and cruelties. He did say, speaking of the “Know Nothings”..”I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
***** Which explains why Trump is no Abraham Lincoln. – and why the party Lincoln formed is dead.

America is in BIG DANGER, democracy itself is in BIG DANGER, if near-50% of Americans believe an acknowledged “despicable” person, convicted felon, liar of recorded 30-40,000 lies, racist, misogamist, tax cheat, draft dodger, etc., etc. who instigated a near-coup on 1/6/21 – can somehow be “an instrument of God’s will” to “save” America from itself – when it’s his fellow top 1% that have created much of the mess the lower 90% needs to be saved from.
THE. SINGLE. GREATEST. CON. of all human history – turning the biggest, greatest democracy into a FASCIST PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY looms as a distinct possibility. – unless. YOU. decide this cannot happen when YOU vote on the future of America, November 5, 2024. Please think…………………

This post is excerpts from Pulitzer Prize winning David Cay Johnston’s “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” [2018]. If you consider yourself a patriotic American – read this book !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A] “A single factor defines Donald Trump’s presidency, making it unlike the 44..before…past presidents all shared a trait missing in the Trump presidency…their administrations were about America and its people….The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period.”

B] “Trump himself has reduced his life philosophy to a single word – revenge. “I love getting even.”……”go for the jugular, attack them in spades!”

C]. “His entire life Trump has been a con artist…Trump relies on faux news organizations…millions of Americans..believe Trump is their champion and is being railroaded by Democrats who collude with..journalists who Trump calls..”enemies of the people.”

D]. “…Trump’s mercurial nature…volatile emotions often drove his decisions. So does whatever he heard from the last person he spoke to.”

E]. “…statements showing how he reacts instinctively, often without advice or knowing basic facts..revealing how his ignorance of science and the technology of modern warfare blocks his ability to understand issues when they’re explained to him.”

F]. “Trump articulated clearly..two standards of justice..One..for those in positions of power who shared his views and took actions he liked…The other..was for everyone else.” [207-08]

G] !!!!!!! Illegal immigrants working in the U.S.A.???!???!??? “..records showed..Melania Knauss..worked illegally in the United States in 1995; …the staff at Mar-a-Lago, which for years relied on the very workers Trump wanted kept out – foreigners.” [242-44] ***as in Trump gets to play by his own rules !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

H]. “Trump lacks the emotional stability, knowledge, critical-thinking skills, and judgment to be commander in chief. Emotionally he remains the 13-year-old troublemaker his father sent..to a military academy where..brutality was common.” [253] *****!!! but he’s our champion and we trust him !!!!!!!!!!

I] “Our Constitution is not written to handle someone like Trump,” the political scientist Jason Johnson told me. “That is the greatest danger and greatest harm he is to our country.” [263]

1]. “Trump is the first president to pose numerous questions about whether he is receiving income from foreign governments, which the Framers felt was inherently corrupting.”

2]. “As president, he did not change his long history of refusing to pay contractors, fighting tax bills, and using two sets of wildly different estimates of the value of his properties.”

3}. Three lies in one tweet [pg. 41] on appointing ambassadors!!!!! *****Trump doesn’t follow rules YOU & I do****

4]. The director of the Office of Government Ethics quit, later said Trump’s conduct “risks people starting to refer to us as a kleptocracy.” [*****as in, becoming more like Russia******]

5] Pages 79-92 – how Trump conned voters into a tax plan where most benefits go to the top 1%. – and [94- ] Trump paid at a 3.5% tax rate, or, NOTHING *****how would YOU like to pay 3.5% or nothing???*******

6]. Pages 101-111 – SOME of the Trump lies on his Mexican Wall; violation of the Logan Act

7] Pages 115-142 – attacks on the EPA and science – BECAUSE. science provides REAL facts on why FAR RIGHT business practices are injuring American’s health and prosperity

8] “Stocking the Swamp” – how Trump appoints industry-friendly hacks and crooks to positions; how Wall Street “easily manipulates”. the system.

9]. Trump likes the Saudis because they “buy apartments from me..Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.” [158] ***might someone call this a “conflict of interest”??? ***

10]. Trump killed the proposed “Trans-Pacific Partnership” trading alliance WITHOUT China. “Trump’s protectionist instincts..his dark vision of..America run by what he called stupid leaders, included at least two other actions that helped the Chinese..” [165-66]

11] “Trump did more to help the Chinese fulfill their ambitions of becoming a 21st century superpower than anyone else.” [167} **** remember this when China & America go to war****. Trump and greedy “American” corporations gave and ARE giving the Chinese the $$$$$$$$ to build their threat to America and democracy ***********

12]. Trump imported cheap steel from China – COSTING U.S. JOBS – – and “..went to great lengths to hide where the steel came from.” [171]

13] Pages 185-203 – Trump’s destructive education policies – huge budget cuts damage U.S. future – contradict Trump’s “America First” and “Make America Great Again” propaganda slogans !!!!!!!!!!

14] Trump cuts budgets for VETERANS !!! – on mental health, homelessness, disability, unemployment, government hiring freeze – in spite of promises !!! [221-227]. ***hey, gotta pay for the top 1% tax cut somehow !!!!!!!

15]. Trump allows 75,000 people “so mentally ill they’re not allowed control over their finances could easily buy guns.” [232] [just following the CORRUPT Roberts “court’s “thinking” ]

16] “…I relied on public records to illuminate Trump’s conduct, including a major drug trafficker for whom he risked his casino licenses for reasons that..have never been properly explained..” [266]. [ and – consider, “some people are saying” – why didn’t Trump loose those licenses – when others probably would have ….where is THIS going ????? !!!!!]

********. Again – this posting is only a small part of the very large. MOUNTAIN. of DOCUMENTED. evidence why one Donald J. Trump should NEVER be allowed in ANY. public office. – shame on US. if we “vote” him another chance.

This post, and following, will provide “insider” insights as to the 110%, often DOCUMENTED, case; Donald J. Trump is a threat to American democracy, American society, EVERYTHING America has stood for….

1] information from Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston’s “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” is coming, including [pg. 258]: Trump fails tests of “U.S. Army Field Manual” for leadership: “emotionally he remains the 13-year-old troublemaker his father sent..to a military academy..”; “Even by standards of the incurious George W. Bush, Trump is appallingly ignorant.” [253]

2] information from “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump…37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President” is forthcoming, including [pg. XX]: “Donald Trump is a profound danger to Americans and to the rest of the world. He will remain a profound danger until he is no longer president, since the dangers clearly result from Trump’s serious mental impairments that are untreated and are most likely impervious to treatment.”

3] information from “Unhinged..An Insider’s Account of the Trump white House,” including “Trump’s greatest character flaw is his total lack of empathy, which is itself a function of his extreme narcissism. Trump constructs his own reality to make himself look good.” [287] This author won a $1.3 million court-ordered award from Trump campaign.

4] “111 former GOP officials call Trump “unfit ti serve” [9/19/24; P.Baker; New York Times]: this group “..included former officials who served under Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or George W. Bush.”

5]. “Security leaders endorse Harris”. [9/23/24] [Maggie Astor; 9/23/24; New York Times]: “More than 700 current and former national security and military leaders..arguing that only [Harris] had the temperament and values needed to serve as commander in chief..They argued..former President Donald Trump posed a threat to both national security and the nation’s democracy.”

6]. “The Tempest…A Memoir by a onetime presidential advisor shows how Donald Trump’s insecurities and weaknesses harmed U.S. foreign policy” [Nicholas Niarchos; 9/29/24; New York Times Book Review]: “In tale after tale, McMaster shows how the former president alwed his own prejudices and the petty rivalries within his administration to undermine his policy goals..Time and again, Trump can’t seem to focus on briefings and responds to serious problems with inane suggestions.”

7] “Trump is ‘fascist to the core,” Milley says [10/13/24; Ruby Cramer; Washington Post]: “Retired Gen, Mark A. Milley warned that former President Donald Trump is a “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person in this country” in Bob Woodward’s new book, “War.”

8] Bob Woodward, in “War”: “Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and is demonstrating the very same character as a presidential candidate in 2024.”

9]. “The Trump Testimonials: The Case Against Him, From His Own People” [New York Times editorial board; 10/6/24]: “Scores of people who know him well, including the 91 listed here, have raised alarms about his character and fitness for office..Some have even spoken out at the expense of their own careers or political interests.”
A] Bill Barr, former attorney general: “He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest. There’s no question about it.”
B]. Betsy De Vos, education secretary: “It was unclear to me if the president was actually in the mental place to continue to serve as the commander in chief..His behavior had grown increasingly erratic and unnerving.”
C]. John Bolton, national security advisor: “His short attention span {except on matters of personal advantage} renders coherent foreign policy almost unattainable.”
D]. Cassidy Hutchinson, Mark Meadows aide: “Trump’s temperament wasn’t rational..”
e]. Dan Coats, ex-senator, director of national intelligence: “To him, a lie is not a lie. It’s just what he thinks. He doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.”
F]. Rex Tillerson, secretary of state: “His understanding of global events..of global history..of U.S. history was really limited.”
G] Michael Cohen, Trump’s attorney, fixer, confidant, 2006-2018: “I bore witness to the real man..in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.”
H] Maryanne Trump Barry, elder sister and former federal judge: “You can’t trust him.
I] Mike Pence, vice president: “I belive anyne that puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United states..”
J] J.Michael Luttig, retired federal judge: “The former president sought to overturn an American election which he lost fair and square..these claims by the former president and his Republican allies havw corroded and corrupted American democracy and American elections.”
K]. John Kelly, homeland security secretary and Trump’s chief of staff: “A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution and the rule of law.”
L] George Will, conservative political analyst and columnist: “Trump is what he is, a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and. not at all compensating vanities, which is pathetic.”

10]. Past J.D. Vance Donald Trump quotes: “Trump is an idiot!..noxious..reprehensible!’; “He’s cultural heroin!”; “He might be America’s Hitler!’; “..unfit for our nation’s highest office!” [Rick McKee; 7/17/24; Cagle Cartoons]

11] “Johnson said Trump unfit to sere in ’15”. [Anne Karni, Steve Eder; ll/l1/23; New York Times]: current House Speaker Mike Johnson: “The thing about Donald Trump is that he lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House. – HIS 8/7/15 post.

12] “What 17 of Trump’s ‘Best People”. Said About Him” [Sarah Longwell; 1/21/24; New York Times]: “In the history of presidential cabinets, former President Donald Trump’s stands out for two qualities: turnover and dissension..These appointees didn’t start out opposed to Mr. Trump..But many of them quickly became alarmed by Mr. Trump’s personality, temperament, and policy aims.”
A]. H.R. McMaster: “President Trump and other officials have repeatedly compromised our principles in pursuit of partisan advantage and personal gain.” [national security advisor]
B] Mark Esper, secretary of defense: “I have a lot of concerns about Donald Trump. I have said that he’s a threat to democracy.”
C] John Bolton, national security advisor: “By the time I left the White House, I was convinced he was not fit to be president…I think it is a danger for the United States if he gets a second term.”
D]. James Mattis, secretary of defense: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of thus deliberate effort.”

13] “Trump is increasingly hostile to fact-checking”. [Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey; 10/15/24; Washington Post]: “..Trump and his campaign have waged an aggressive campaign against fact-checking..pushing TV networks, journalism organizations and others to abandon the practice if they he to interact with Trump..the latest example of Trump’s long-held resistance to being called to account for his lies..the bedrock of his political message…The Washington Post Fact Checker team tallied..by the end of Trump’s presidency, he had made 30,573 false or misleading claims – an average of about 21..a day.”

14]. THEN !!!!! – consider the wisdom of this: “World’s oldest person dies at age 117”. [Adela Suliman; 8/22/24; Washington Post]: “She celebrated her 117th birthday earlier this year and credited. “staying away from toxic people”. among the reasons she lived so long.”
***** “staying away from toxic people” !!!!!!!!! with good fortune and people’s good reasoning
at the polls – let us ALL pray America is able to stay away from. THE. most toxic person on
November 5, 2024. – one. Donald J. Trump

15] **** Please remember: the greatest mass murderers; Mao, Stalin, Hitler – DID. NOT. kill 6. or 10 or 20 or. 30. million people themselves. – they had help: enablers, advocates, followers who did the actual dirty work. – if one D.J. Trump wins another term – he will. NOT. be surrounded by the many good, patriotic Americans that thwarted his autocratic tendencies – those people have been systematically removed from consideration. – want proof???? Read. “Project 2025”. – a “conservative”. blueprint for Trump to pursue. the remaining FAR. RIGHT. WISH. LIST. “

*** There are NO, None, Zero reasons to vote for Trump, or virtually ANY Republican – as Trump OWNS the current “Republican” Party
*** Witness what “Republicans” have done in virtually ANY state they control – the cruelty, the craziness,, the corruption in laws and policies enacted
*** Witness the original 1854-1960 Republican Party of Lincoln, Teddy R., Ike – that in many ways, helped build modern America – THAT Party. is. dead.
*** Witness the 1980-2024 “Republican” Party’s attacks on unions and labor rights; voter suppression; subversion of 1947-75 historic mass middle class prosperity; tax cuts for the rich and corporations; attacks on reproductive health care rights; attacks on Social Security and Medicare; subversion of America’s judicial system; becoming THE FIRST party in American history to be controlled by ONE religious philosophy; subversion of 1787-1980 American governing principles; and….much more………

One of THE most demoralizing, truly frightening aspects of 2015-2024 America is how so many GOOD Americans have been deceived by Trump lies and fear-mongering; how many GOOD Americans drank the kool-aid, entered the cult. THIS is now the subject of MANY unrecorded, private conversations – disbelief so many GOOD Americans suspended rational thinking…. – despair so many GOOD Americans sucked into FAR RIGHT echo-chamber of Alice-in-Wonderland fairy tales…. – fear America will repeat 1932 German election, turn America into the THEOCRATIC PLUTOCRACY that Trumpers and FAR RIGHT have been planning for decades – clearly visible in “Project 2025”, partially visible in known ‘CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST’ plans for YOU.

Examine “letters-to-the-editor” for examples of how GOOD Americans have accepted FAR RIGHT propaganda of the Fox “news”-“Christian media – talk radio. echo chamber, as FAR RIGHT “talking points” are repeated, praised, supported – virtually ALL of them factually FALSE, appealing to often exaggerated fears.

Claims Trump’s economy was better; that Democrats solely responsible for inflation; America is under siege by “hordes of criminal immigrants”; crime is “out of control”; etc., etc. – either FACTUALLY FALSE, taken out of context, ignore Republican efforts to create problems for political gain, ignore documented statistics. Suppose Trump’s 2017-2020 term was 100% during COVID – how “good” would it have been?????????

Do your own research: research 1946-1979 income, wealth, taxes paid, tax rates – versus – 1980-2024 income, wealth, taxes paid, tax rates; research crime statistics, 1950-2024; research immigration rates and Border Patrol funding – WHY are people coming to America & what resources does Border Patrol have?; research 1980-2024 retail prices; find 2024 CEO confessions on how they took advantage of COVID to ARTIFICIALLY jack up prices!!!; WHO, specifically is responsible for 25% food price increases – Joe Biden – or – the 3-4-5 corporations with monopolistic control of YOUR food????????

Research studies of which Party – Republican or Democrat – has created the most jobs, has passed labor-friendly and consumer-friendly policies and laws. [ hint – it ISN’T the GOP!!!! ]

Research studies on fascism, authoritarianism, religious freedom, voter suppression, what 1789-1939 Supreme Courts said about the Second Amendment and early state courts ruled, about DELIBERATE disinformation,, WHY America NOW has record numbers of billionaires & centi-millionaires, WHY native-born Americans are having fewer children.

Example!. of! Far! Right! thought!!!: “..Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. asserts that Washington used weather control technology to steer Helene toward Republican voters in order to tilt the presidential election toward Democrat Kamala Harris.”!!!!!!!!!!! [10/7/24; Assoc. Press] Examination of past hurricanes would indicate Washington has been guilty of doing this since 1789 !!!!!!!! – since most hurricanes hit the southern U.S. How many will believe THIS obvious lie???

Research effects of Trump’s 2017-2020 economic policies – blew up national debt with tax cut for rich and corporations; tariffs were a tax on YOU; effects of trade war with China cost U.S. farmers markets; his 2025 plans already shown to damage the U.S. economy [10/8/24]: Trump’s plans “..could inflame the nation’s debt burden while ultimately raising costs for a vast majority of Americans, according to a pair of new economic analyses..among the most in-depth studies..of the GOP nominee’s plans.” How can ANYBODY say Trump’s better for the U.S. economy?????????

Read Barbara McQuade’s “Attack From Within,” chapter one: “The Authoritarian Playbook” – “Aim for the Heart: Emotion over Reason”; “Divide: With Us or Against Us”; “..And Conquer” Shut Down Critics”; “Stoke Violence: Normalize Cruelty and Violence”: “Man and Superman: ‘Regular Guy’ Who Can Solve Problems” – Trump’s done all of this. Chapter two: “From Gaslighting to the Liar’s Dividend: Disinformation Tactics” – “Destroy Truth”; “Go Big”; “Repeat, Repeat”; “Look Over There”; “Insult Them to Death”; “Keep It Simple”; “Reflexive Control”; “They’re Not Attacking Me, They’re Attacking You”. – Trump [and Hitler, Putin]. have done all this

Read James Gilligan’s “Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others” – when Republicans controlled the White House, America suffered “epidemics of violent death..The reasons are all too obvious: rates of every form of social and economic distress, inequality, and loss – unemployment, recessions, poverty, bankruptcy, homelessness also ballooned..those in the population who were most vulnerable have “snapped,” with tragic circumstances for everyone..until..Democrats, regained the White House.”..[reduced the causes]..”This pattern has bveen documented since 1900.”

Guns and crime? Research the ORIGINAL Second Amendment – that had a provision for “conscientious objectors” people objecting to MILITARY SERVICE – what the Second Amendment is MEANT to cover – NOT “guns for everybody.” “Law and Order”??? – Trump – virtually his entire adult life, considered himself to be above ANY laws: draft, taxes, business practices, Constitution. – note recent criminal evasions and delays [YOU would already be jailed!!!]

“Separation of Church and State”? – read Edwin Gaustad’s “Faith of the Founders,” Appendix B, pages 134-45. 8 original states banned active ministers serving in their gov’t; 4 banned a “religious test for office” [Article VI]; 10 banned existence of “an established church” [Amendment One]. 1776 North Carolina Constitution, Articles XXXIV: “..neither shall any person, on any pretense whatsoever, be compelled to attend any place of worship contrary to his own faith or judgment, nor be obliged to pay, for the purchase of any glebe, or the building of any house of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry, contrary to what he believes right..” CAN THERE BE ANY DOUBT?????? – “not on any pretense whatsoever”. – are YOU compelled to support any church YOU don’t want to – any ANY way.

Immigration????? – which 2024 presidential candidate ORDERED “Republican” Senators to vote against a BIPARTISAN comprehensive immigration law authored by one of THE most “conservative” Senators. – so he could run his campaign against “lack of immigration enforcement”????????? – name a tactic more CYNICAL & Corrupt than this.

Are YOU, unknowingly, believing and repeating Russian and Chinese propaganda? It’s DOCUMENTED, beyond question, Russia and China want to destroy ANY democracy – because it’s a threat to them. Also DOCUMENTED, beyond question, Russia supported Trump in 2016, 2020, 2024. WHY does Putin want Trump to win?????????????
Russia and China promote chaos, division, controversy in America – on any issue – get us fighting each other rather than them. They want YOU to question democracy, election integrity, American gov’t; to believe America is in decline.

What does Trump repeatedly say

***** The Far Right intends to create an American theocratic plutocracy – have already achieved some of their goals [rich & corporate tax cuts, non-enforcement of anti-trust laws, corrupt Roberts ‘court” rulings: immunization, hamstringing gov’t, “religious rights’, “Shelby”, “Citizens United”]. “Project 2025” is a Far Right wish list to complete the job, with much obscuring “code talk.” “Christian Nationalists” have their own plans for their version of what the Taliban has accomplished in Afghanistan. Trump’s worst instincts were thwarted by GOOD, patriotic Americans in 2017-2020. That “mistake” won’t be made if Trump wins – he’ll be surrounded by “loyalists.”

***There is NO good reason to vote Trump in 2024 – but many BAD, antidemocratic ones. THE greatest con man EVER is working THE greatest con EVER – for the American presidency. Donald J. Trump is a CANCER – on American society and democracy. America will NEVER be “normal”, NEVER be healthy as long as Trumpism FESTERS on the American body politic.
YOU don’t want to have to lie, to YOUR children & grandchildren, about YOUR 2024 vote. PLEASE – think very carefully about America – as it was 1789-1980; as it could be again – without the threat of a con man demagogue like Donald J. Trump – anywhere near any kind of power.