Title: Welcome to the Dictatorship—Please Mind the Lies
Somehow we woke up and discovered we no longer live in a functioning democracy. Federal agents shot two protestors in Minneapolis, and—surprise, surprise—the government assures us they’ll “investigate themselves.” That’s the sort of accountability you expect in a banana republic, not a constitutional democracy.
Then comes Kristi Noem, sprinting to the nearest camera to declare the protestors “terrorists” without a shred of evidence. Not one fact—just a reflexive lie to serve her strongman.
And, as reliably as thunder follows lightning, Trump—now functioning less like a president and more like an autocratic ruler—echoes her lie. Truth has become irrelevant. Evidence is irrelevant. What matters is loyalty to the Leader.
We’re no longer living under a system of laws or justice. Trump has taken in $1.5 billion through the most brazen scheme of political bribery in American history—pardons for cash, foreign deals funneled through family members, and influence for sale to anyone with a checkbook. And yet his loyalists cheer him on. No president in history has lied so much, so often, or so shamelessly.
Meanwhile the Republican Party—once a real political party—has become a full-time propaganda machine. Thousands of dedicated, ethical public servants have resigned rather than serve this new dictatorship.
This is not normal. This is not freedom. This is not the America we were promised.
It’s time to say it plainly: the dictatorship has already arrived, and it arrived wrapped in a red tie, a Fox News chyron, and a mountain of lies.
4 comments:
Why is it all this crap happens in Minnesota and other liberal states? The Trump family had businesses long before getting into politics are the not allowed to make money? How much did the last few liberal presidents families portfolio increase when they were in the presidency?
Some of us have been wondering for quite a while "how did we get here?" Those of us who are baby boomers grew up in a society that was so radically different from what we have now that it could be considered to be a totally different country. What we were taught in government and history classes about the way our country's laws would prevent the very things that are happening now has proven to be totally false. Robert Reich's book The Common Good gives an excellent explanation of what has happened between the time I was educated up to now. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who wants to understand how we moved from post-WW II prosperity to where we are now. Sadly, Reich does not give a road map telling us how to escape the morass we are stuck in now.
The Right to Life protest ( I would assume mostly Republicans because democrats want to kill babies) didn’t have one person get killed not even tried to attack a law enforcement person. Maybe it is the democrat party that causes the problems
How did Omars wealth skyrocket in a year?
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