The Fascist President

All fascist governments act the same. They do whatever they want to do irrespective of laws. Rights or Constitutional authorities. They operate on the principle that it is far easier to “not seek forgiveness than it is to get permission.” The leaders who direct such enterprises never are sorry or apologetic for anything they do. All rhetoric and action is fully justified I their own minds. There is nothing that is off-limits to such people.

Whereas the constitutional concept of “innocent until proven guilty” was supposed to protect prisoners and the accused from punishment without due process, that concept has been perverted by the present Administration to dodge the consequences of their highly questionable acts and policies. In the same way the Tobacco Industry claimed that tobacco usage did not cause cancers, lung and heart disease, this Administration claims it is not affiliated with obvious foreign influences. Not being tried in court for crimes and official irregularities is not the same as not having committed the crimes. Opposite the Tobacco Industry claim that correlation doesn’t prove causation, this Administration colors the nature of immigrants and asylum seekers in the hues of criminality. The Administration purposefully declines to differentiate among the types of people who arrive at our doorstep seeking entrance.

There are those who arrive at a port of entry seeking a visa to stay. They cite economic and persecution reasons for their long arduous journey, typically on foot with children in tow, hoping for the ability to stay and build a better life. They are summarily turned away by border control agents at the behest of a President who doesn’t like their language, national heritage and customs. Such people are profiled by their skin color and physical stature.

There are those people who made the same onerous trek of 1,000 mile or more and crossed the US/MEX border and sat down to wait for border agents to pick them up and take them to a place where they may apply for permission to stay based on political asylum. They too are held indefinitely while “their case is pending” maybe for years as though they were criminals. The Administration labels them as criminals and undesirable without evidence or proof of either claim. There is no due process. There is no right to reasonable bail being honored. No writs of Habeas Corpus are being filed seeking the whereabouts of misplaced children or adults in detention. All of these Constitutional Rights are being summarily denied by the authoritarian Administration on the principle of “we will do what we want until a court orders otherwise, then we will challenge the court decisions.”

There is no end to the atrocities a rogue government will commit when the President orders it and the Legislature is cowed into silence and inaction. Half of the deafening silence is due to them liking what the President is doing while the other half is scared at what the President and his organization will do to them. Many of them surely have been the recipient of “the offer you can’t refuse.”

This “offer” takes several forms in the political arena. Hardcore Republicans speak of a resistant incumbent being “primaried” in the next election. That is the GOP will put up and support a candidate to replace incumbent. Such action would effectively end their political careers. The Fascist style relies heavily on threats and coercion rather than cooperation and compromise. The GOP Senate is universally silent on everything the current President does. They may have been subjected to the most extreme meaning of “the offer.”

If so, it would explain how a Senator such as Lindsey Graham could speak truths about how wrong and ignorant Donald Trump is then like flipping a switch turn and praise his prowess and benefits to America.

Trumps highly visible relationship with the Russian President and his praise for the man, shows that he too has been compromised and forced to toe the line. In a country where journalists and political adversaries drop like flies it is not a long stretch to imagine how far their influence extends.