WE EITHER LEARN FROM HISTORY OR WE ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT –
One example in progress –
Ronald Reagan – American President – Republican
Went to Germany and gave a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany in 1987 in which he said “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” The wall was built by the Communists in August, 1961. It was a twelve foot concrete wall which surrounded West Berlin symbolizing Russia and the United States’ fight for dominance. The pain, injustice and agony that thousands of people suffered because this wall was built and all that happened subsequent to its construction ruined human lives and resulted in many human deaths – some unbelievably vicious – all this was gathered up into that speech by President Reagan.
Two years later East Germans issued a decree for the gate to be opened, allowing people to travel freely. By the end of 1990, when Communism in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union collapsed, the wall was torn down altogether.
Donald J. Trump – American President – Republican
Friend of Putin, who was a KGB person during that period of time, Mr. Trump has declared “We shall build a wall separating Mexico from the United States and Mexico is going to pay for the wall.” In other words he was going to force Mexico to pay for something which would be a reflection and re-enactment of what happened historically in Germany from 1961 on. The cost the Soviet Union exacted from those in Germany, on both sides of the wall, will parallel and is the pattern for the cost to Mexico and the United States if and when Donald Trump is able to build his much beloved wall.
What would Donald J. Trump get out of such an act? It seems to us it would move him along in his apparent quest to become like the Russian Oligarchs. His natural character – which is to abuse, insult, malign and generally take advantage of those under him, especially those oppressed – gives him the ability to see how he could benefit from such a construction project. We only see that dimly, Trump sees such clearer and has goals set in that direction.
The building of the wall would be Trump’s gift to his followers, – the KKK, the White Nationalists, the Neo-Nazi’s and all of the other White Supremacist groups, many of whom voted for him because they saw in this offering the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for them. They would be on their way to replicating in the United States what the Nazi’s created in Germany – the ovens, the concentration camps, etc. – the dream possibility that has periodically popped up in these United States over the decades and the generations. Trump’s followers, those who voted for him in public or in secret, would be relieved of their nightmare that these United States would/could soon become a country with a majority of ‘brown people’ and then where would they be. And, let’s make no mistake about the fact that bigotry characterizes each and every one of Trump’s voters and supporters.
It also seems to us that Donald J. Trump was born in the wrong country. He has been a public figure who has called out many is this country who are really American Nazi’s, but who have been living under a different flag and putting forth publicly a different image, a different persona. With Trump as president they are now able to drop the pretense and show who they really are and the life they would prefer to lead and that certainly is not one under a democratic form of government.
We see Donald Trump moving to form the American Nazi Party. It may be established under a different name, but that is what it will be. In all the demonstrations they originated and in which they participated the KKK has dropped the white uniform and they have stopped covering their faces. That alone says they see a changed world – one in which they no longer have to hide – and they owe that to this new American President.
Trump would like to lead us into a totalitarian world where he is in complete control. To quote Ronald Reagan – “The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.”
To further quote Reagan “In this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation, the Soviet Union faces a choice: It must make fundamental changes, or it will become obsolete.”
Clearly, to all of us, the Soviet Union has made the choice to become obsolete and in making and carrying out that choice it moved from being the Soviet Union to becoming just Russia. It has brought Donald Trump into its sphere of largesse and influence to make sure the United States goes along with its choice and also becomes obsolete. The Soviet Union/Russia, even though it is the smaller country with the dramatically smaller economy – has impressed this new United States president with its power and influence and has brought him into a place where he seems to be more interested in learning from Putin instead of from United States mentors and therefore he seems more interested in seeing that the United States becomes a society ruled by Russian-type Oligarchs, a few individuals who have endless amounts of money and power.
The United States has its American Oligarchs, who have enormous amounts of money and wield substantial power, until now have been in the shadows. With the arrival of Trump on the political stage, they can come out and move along unbridling their quest for and accumulation of wealth and power.
The Soviet Union, which tasted a bit of freedom with the tearing down of the wall; with the ascendancy of Gorbachev; with the opening of the country to a freer way to live; was recaptured by Putin and brought smaller, lower and with much less power as it moved into a more controlled and less democratic place. Its Oligarch’s, however, have thrived and become wealthy beyond the comprehension of most of us and with enough power to bring about changes in their country and economy which continues to benefit them at the expense of their citizenry.
To keep it under such control, it seems to us that Putin has set himself the task of eliminating democracy world-wide so it does not threaten his control and putting in its place world-wide the kind of controlled country he has set about creating in Russia. As the Soviet Union moved to become Russia – and not to its liking – so the United States, following the path of that country will move to become less democratic, more abusive and totally undermining of its own citizens. That small group – called Oligarch’s, American Oligarchs, will continue to grow in wealth, prosperity and control.
As American Oligarchs gain even more assets, more money, more power, we will notice in these United States that the homeless population will continue to grow at a much more rapid pace than it has in the recent past.
That is how the system works
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