All Hail the Authoritarian Neofascists
If I hadn’t lived it, I would have said it wasn’t possible. American Republicans have become Anthoritarian Neofascists (ANists from here on). Gone are the days of a balanced two party system capable of governing. As Robert Reich wrote in the Guardian on April 19th of this year, “America…needs two parties capable of governing. It needs two parties with a sense of the common good, even if their interpretations of it differ. It needs principled people in government. Even if politics is sometimes dirty and often frustrating, a functional democracy depends on it.”
To the outsider, with no stake in America’s political process, other than being blindsided in the future by the effects of economic, trade and military policy actions, it seems as though Republicans, real Republicans have all died, or given up caring about democracy. Power is the only thing they are interested in, even if it means that a felon, leads the Republican Party. Where are the real Republicans? Have those who once believed in the rule of law and a democracy now been infected with a virus that makes their ability to reason, to think cogently, or even to be honest, – dead from the neck up? Republican Zombies is what they’ve become, incapable of independent thought, intelligent discourse, rationality and reason.
America’s democracy is rotting in front of our eyes. The Republican Party has no respect for the law, for the political process, or for science or education. America will cease to be a leader of anyone other than criminals, thieves, kleptocrats, despots, fools and Christian Zealots, filled with hate, avarice and greed. It is obvious, even to the blind, that if Republicans prevail in the coming election, led by a criminal felon, adjudicated rapist and kleptocrat, Donald Trump, that the United States will become an authoritarian kleptocracy run by neofascists.
In my 71 years of life I have never been happier about not being American as I am at this very moment. America as I knew it, is lost. The voices of reason and those of law abiding, intelligent and educated Americans is quickly being silenced by a right-wing lunatic fringe, aided by the silence of those within the Republican Party who are either afraid, cowardly or simply willing to seek political power at any cost.
Not just as a Canadian, but as a rational human being who can see what is obviously the willful destruction of democracy in America occurring, it’s time to stand with those in America who will fight for democracy, the law and for the election of ethical, honest men and women.
If not, those of us in the western world who believe in democracy will have to learn to create and support a new group of allied nations with citizens committed and willing to maintain a democratic future for all those who seek truth, honor, and reason within secular societies, who are now willing to stand against a criminally led American Kleptocracy.
Failure is not an option. As Robert Reich in the Guardian on April 19th stated in his article, “The Death of the Republican Party is not a Tragedy to be Celebrated… Nixon infected the modern Republican party with a sickness that would ultimately kill it. Donald Trump has finished the job.”
He goes on to say the following,
“Republicans willingness to destroy American democracy so that the Republican Party can stay in power is shared by most Republican office holders today. It is a rejection of American democracy – an abrogation of the self-government that generations of Americans have fought for and died for.”
I could not agree more. Americans have lost sight of their history, or they have become so cynical and hopeless that they are indeed willing to chuck it all in favor of an atrocious, and I might add, evil human being who claims to be on their side.
If the convicted felon is elected by Americans, then America is lost, as is its influence and respect around the world.
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