23-01-2017, 11:17 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Very bad signs Peter but all this apparatus has been put in place years before Trump even ran for office. Naturally he will use it but who gave him the means?
I quite agree....the apparatus that Trumpf will use has been built up since WW2 - and some from even before that. He is but the endpoint in a long 'trail of tears' from a half-ass system to the final stages of a police state and ever-bloming fascism - LONG time in the making. My worry, however, is that soon under him, in response to opposition in the streets he will declare martial law or some such evil. From there on out things become a lot more difficult and deadly. His administration will use much less restraint. If Obama had hundreds of drone strikes, Trumpf will use thousands...if one is a whisleblower and caught now, it will be even worse than under Obama.....and so on....
This is a HUGE change for the negative; not just a little more change in the direction we've long been going. IMO. First we have to deal with the visible government - then to deal with the hidden structures [which most don't even see nor know about]. With Trumpf they will be much more visible, however.
The Women's March was very hopeful, and if that could be kept up as local action for a year or more, Trumpf would be unable to do as much as planned and in two years the Congress could have most of his supporters removed. No, Trump is not the first big problem - he is the end game of a process - but sad to see its day 'dawn'.
Much work to do - and it will not be easy nor fun! At least the next period of time will not be dull! Not dull at all!
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"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass