The following is an excerpt from the Op-Ed piece, “TRUMP et al v. USA et al”
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In my opinion, no politician can make America great again. We all need to make it greater (MAG). Holding Donald J. Trump and his accomplices responsible for insurrection, for treason, and their other crimes will help.
Yet, I agree with some of what Trump and his supporters say about corruption of government here. I go further. Like researchers at Princeton and Northwestern (universities),[1] I see that we don’t have a democratic republic. What we have is a plutocratic oligarchy, run by and for the super-rich, the ultra-rich, and their corporations. I think our Constitution needs updating,[2] but I can’t agree that one professional fraudster (who wants to be like Putin, or Xi or Kim or Hitler) can or would “fix” America.
The signers of our Declaration of Independence agree with me, that “...when a long train of abuses and usurpations...” threaten us with absolute tyranny, “...it is [our] right...[our] duty” to end our subjection to corrupted government “...to provide new Guards for [our] future security.” They also knew that most of us will suffer tolerable evils, rather than relieve ourselves by radically changing our habits and lives.[3] Why? We prefer suffering a devil we know, to taking a chance on one who may be worse.
INSURRECTION OR TREASON?
I also agree with Winston Churchill, “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”[4]
Despite the defects—of our Constitution, governments, and devils—most of us don’t suffer enough to crave an extremely radical change of our ways or governance (etc.). We also want the rule of law to be as effective as possible. So, we should protect our constitutional rule of law. That requires holding government officials, judges, and other law officers responsible to protect it and us. They should see Trump’s War on Truth for what it is, a war against the law, our Constitution, good government, our security, peace, and liberty. That makes it a treasonous conspiracy.
We can equate the War on Truth with Putin’s global InfoWar, and psychological warfare in general. You disagree? Watch documentaries on the dictators’ playbook, and do more reading.[5] Future dictators use a game plan, starting with InfoWar. The rest of the strategy is simple, making it a useful check list.
THE DICTATORS’ PLAYBOOK
“Learning from the experience of history requires recognizing the patterns of dictatorships—the Strongman’s Playbook...[6]
- Extreme nationalism that calls for restoring a country’s past glory or greatness.
- Placing blame on a single group...an ethnic or religious minority, or foreign threat.
- Warning of an emergency, often nonexistent, or responding to severe economic distress…
- Calls for “law and order” and eliminating corruption.
The 2nd page also lists the 12-step process dictators use after the gain enough power to control the government, media, etc.
If you like any of that, you’ll like the rest of it, especially the section on how many of the essential principles & elements of the Constitution and Bill of Rights (etc.) Trump violated (a total of 13) while in office. Yes, that makes his rain of lies and crimes a substantial pattern of treason, and conspiracy to commit treason from before he was elected President. That proves his accomplices co-conspirators (now including the SCOTUS 9), still engaging in ongoing InfoWar (psychological warfare) against the USA and our constitutional Rule of Law. Clearly, the War on Truth & Law gives great help to Putin’s Info-Warriors and all other foreign enemies. So, this is a call to legal-political action (not violent insurrection). We can legally force arrests & prosecutions of the conspirators (for treason) ASAP. We can also use class-action suits and fear (of being voted out of office) against cowardly State officials, judges, & members of Congress. That will expedite our MAG recovery process.