USA under presidency of a know-nothing, neo-fascist, racist, sexist, mobbed-up narcissist!!

[Peter Lemkin]

The Return of American Race Laws

Racial profiling. Random police stops. Raids at homes and businesses. People of color pulled from vehicles at checkpoints. Seizures of individuals with no criminal records or who never committed a serious crime. Imprisonment without trial.

Is this really new though? All of this has been happening for decades. A culture of racism and a selection of police recruited from the lumpen proletariat of long standing. All the legislation and apparatus for a police state was kindly provided by the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the previous occupant. Due to the commitment to neo liberal economic policy now the middle classes can experience what poor people have long been subject to. There is a solution to this but it is not the Democrats who brought us here in the first place. Just like their respective sister parties did in Chile and Weimar Germany.

New? NO!, not at all new....but much more intense, aggressive....a 'final solution' in the offing. Both parties [to varying degrees] have played a role in this. The Republicans are overall worse. The two parties, apart from the different lip service, have both engaged in endless foreign wars, covert operations, assassinations, government destabilizations and overthrows, sucking the life and wealth out of developing countries [read colonies]. Where the parties do differ has been in domestic policy. The Democrats allowing a modicum of slow progress when pushed; the Republicans unabashedly stating that or hinting that Whites, Christians, the Rich, Corporations, Privatization, Oligarchy, more and harsher Police are the answer in the country. It is only a matter of degree; both have become owned/run by the same forces who control the power structures of the two parties. The populations who support the two parties are very different.

All that said, Trump is something totally different. He is a neo-fascist and openly racist President. We've not had any before who would say they were, even if some thought that privately. He is building a wave and riding a wave of hate, nationalism, patriotism, racism, mysogeny, know-nothingism, open fascism the likes of which has not been seen at this intensity in the USA in my lifetime. He aims to roll-back what precious little progress we have made and to destroy all the precious little positive changes in the structure of government and society. I don't believe in a two party system, and I don't see the 'Democrats' as the antidote to a Trump. My focus is to stop Trumpfism and all it stands for! This is NOT the USA as usual....this is the 'fall' as in Spain/Italy/Germany in the '30s if not opposed and stopped - and stopped fast!! To hell with the two main parties. We need a mulitparty system and real democracy. I have voted Green or Peace and Freedom all my life. But now is the time to get out in the streets and stop this putsch or perish. I have never in my life been very proud of my country for what it has done externally and failed to do internally - but this is a crisis situation unparalleled in my lifetime and beyond. We are IMO looking into the abyss and the end of what little democracy and progress there was in the USA - and perhaps forever unless this monster [and it goes way beyond the man Trumpf] has a wooden stake pounded through its heart and is killed! What is happening is NOT supported by the Public. Trumpf has about a 40% approval rating and many of these people are too stupid to realize the magic trick happening before and against them. I don't think most in Germany really wanted Nazism either - but they got it...and the USA can get a full-blown police-state and fascism too under this Administration unless there is enormous fight-back at all levels, but mostly in the streets. The best Administration we had since the Second World War was Kennedy - and that is why they killed him. The worst we've had is by far the one we have now. The most dangerous situation the USA has been in perhaps ever is now. To say this is what the USA has always been is not correct. Yes, there has always been 'some' of 'this'..but not like this, and not moving like this. This is uncharted territory in all the wrong places and an attempt to permanently delete all the small bits of positive change that were made and delegitimize what remains of a popular opposition to the hidden forces who have always wanted such an outcome.