The following is the text of a signed letter I sent to PBS's NewsHour at their "viewermail" address. The letter is a warning about the threat of a coming dictatorship in the US. I am shouting from the rooftops about this threat! As for the image, some "peaceful tour or demonstration" that was!
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A much-edited version of this appeared as a column in the Waco, Texas, "Tribune-Herald" 30 January 2024
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I am still astounded that no one trying to responsibly
report the news seems to understand where all the rabidly-loyal Trump voters
are coming from, and why they persist in
their support, despite the serious criminal
trials of Trump that are coming. They so
very clearly want him, even if he is in
jail!
That’s because it is a fearless leader cult built
around Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election, from roots in the “Qanon” on-line
conspiracy. Cults are cults, belief outweighs the importance of any facts! They operate by brainwashing, and the Trump cult has been brainwashing GOP
voters since 2015.
Our cowardly GOP politicians know this, which is why they cravenly do whatever the
brainwashed crowd wants, no matter how
nonsensical or evil. They still outnumber
the true Trump cultists in the GOP, and
yet they are utterly subservient to them,
because of those brainwashed voters. That is what “primarying” really means!
The GOP has morphed from a largely corporate-friendly
membership 3+ decades ago, to a major
percentage of uneducated blue-collar membership today, precisely because uneducated people
are far easier to brainwash! The
brainwashing is done by both the politicians themselves at their rallies and
events, and by the “social media” on the
entirely unregulated internet, which
freely spouts all sorts of lies, and
even Russian (and other) propaganda! If
you don’t believe me, go look for
yourself!
That unregulated lying mess is where most GOP voters get
their “news” and their “facts”. If you
don’t believe me about that, go ask any
of them! But that unregulated lying mess
is also why they don’t believe any of the “mainstream media”, which is you,
the responsible journalists still left in this world! And I think you do know about that!
Political cult,
religious cult, or some of both, it does not matter. All have a purpose, and a top-of-the-list thing they want to
do. These are usually initially
secret, but they always come out. Trump’s former advisor, retired General Flynn, spilled the beans in public about the Trump
cult’s purpose, some years ago during
Trump’s term in the White House: a
dictatorship over the US, with Trump at
the top.
Trump himself has made clear what his top-of-the-list
priority is, once he takes power: to
kill all his opposition, just not in
those exact words. His word is
“retribution”. But that’s what it
ultimately means! If you look at the
Qanon roots of the Trump cult, “the
storm” is where they round up all who oppose them (termed “deep state”), maybe (or maybe not) try them by a military
tribunal, not a real court, and execute them. That intent has not changed on the internet
since 2016; I have watched it.
Liz Cheney was, and is, correct:
this nation is sleepwalking its way into a dictatorship! The GOP has absolutely no business
running a multiply-indicted (and likely convicted) felon for the office of
President, or anything else! Especially one so evidently guilty of
fomenting an insurrection! That they are
running him is proof that the craven-coward politicians, and the Trump cult members of Congress, are together in total control of the Republican
party, which clearly is no longer a
responsible entity!
All the responsible media,
NewsHour included, should be
screaming about this abomination from the rooftops! I certainly am.
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I have written articles before, on this site about the Trump cult. The best one is "Beware of Leader Cults", posted 16 February 2020. Use the navigation tool on the left to find it quickly. All you need is the date and the title. Click on the year, then the month, then the title if need be.
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Update 1-27-2024: add another image as proof of roots. Look at caps, then at sign.
Update 6-6-2024: Well, "Teflon Don's" teflon now has at least one big hole in it: he is now a convicted felon, with 3 more felony trials looming! And it's by a state court, not federal, so even if he becomes President again, he cannot pardon himself of this! He is a convicted felon who now wants to you all to re-elect him, so he can become dictator over you. Like he almost did before, with the Jan. 6 insurrection he incited.
I reiterate: the Republican Party has absolutely NO business running a convicted and multiply-indicted felon for President! The President is supposed to be a role model for our children, among many other things. Donald J. Trump is NO role model of anything good! That alone should disqualify him in the minds of all but the most brainwashed voters! Not to mention his wannabee-dictator ambitions!
Trump himself years ago made the same point: that GOP voters are much easier to brainwash.
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