This Is What Will Transpire with a Second Trump Administration

Are You Working For or Against It?

Many Americans, far, far too many, remain in utter denial of what will transpire in a second Trump administration, even though the consequences are within plain sight.

Timothy Snyder’s October 11th post to Americans may open some eyes that have become willfully blind to the present reality of fascism, which has been the subject of historian Timothy Snyder’s research and writing.

Dr. Snyder begins his October 11th post with the following:

Today, our American fascists blame the hurricanes on the meteorologists and disrupt the government response.  Tomorrow they will blame climate change on the climate scientists and deport their enemies of choice.  And the day after tomorrow there will be no democracy and no country, just a politics of impotence and a fascist catastrophe.

Trump and Vance are teaching us that the government cannot do anything except turn us against one another.  They do so by spreading disinformation about critical matters like hurricanes, so that people despise and disrupt the government, the only institution that can help.  This is impotence politics, and it leads to fascism. 

In impotence politics, nothing is true except our emotions, and so we cannot see the sources of problems, and do not really expect to solve them.  Once we accept that government is useless, we respond to crisis by turning against one another.  Politics then begins not from improving life together but by choosing an enemy within. 

Continue reading with this link: From the Storm to the Stormtroopers

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