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Can you feel the dictatorship coming?

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Get off your smartphone and look around

Can you feel the dictatorship? Do you feel it? Do you feel it coming?

I can.

I can feel dictatorship on its way. 

I feel it right here at home right now right here in the USA.

Trump’s approach in his second term feels different from his first term. It feels different from what I remember under Texas boss man LBJ, who despite accumulating a great deal of executive power ended up walking away from the Presidency. What Trump has done far exceeds the last “Imperial Presidency” of Richard Nixon. Nixon was paranoid and suspicious. He was not financially crooked as much as he was corrupted by his pursuit of power to cover over his insecurities and fears. Hence he walked away from Vietnam and was consumed by the Watergate scandals. Eventually Nixon resigned from the White House and was pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford. Trump, however, admires presidents-for-life abroad and brags about winning a third term here in America. Continue reading →

When we’ll know we’re in a Dictatorship

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The American 1st Amendment is called First for a reason

What will occur to let us know when the United States becomes a full dictatorship? How will you know we’ve moved beyond an authoritarian, wannabe king to a true totalitarian despotism? When would you know? How would you know? 

The answer in today’s 21st Century America may be surprisingly simple: when one becomes too afraid to sent a text to a friend or a relative criticizing Donald Trump and his regime, and when one realizes they’re too scared to post anti-MAGA comments in a social media feed. We can tell our government has become  a dictatorship when one looks around in a coffee shop or a restaurant first before whispering condemnation of those in power. It’s when we consider those in power tyrants, but are too afraid to say so out loud or in any media. Eventually one will be afraid to say anything negative in public with all the mass surveillance in play. Continue reading →

Make DC the State of Douglass

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Expand self-determination for people in U.S. territories…without any further delay

People of America, fellow citizens of our constitutional democratic republic, let us grant DC statehood. Let’s add the District of Columbia to the Union as a state and rename it the State of Douglass. Let’s forward similar processes with Puerto Rico and other territories. All equally deserve to be liberated from anachronistic shackles of population requirements especially on islands and other areas constrained by geography so they may all engage with their fellow Americans as full citizens able to vote for their President and Vice-President of our United States. Yes, let’s grant DC statehood now.

The District of Columbia is constrained by geography, history, and territorial conflicts. DC can exist as a state, however small, simply as it is, especially as it’s population is larger than several other much larger current states. DC can be a state without any additional territory, altho it would be to the benefit of DC to have more territory. Having a larger, viable state in and around the current DC, while a territorial, voting, and tax loss in the short term for Virginia and Maryland, would most likely in the long run be in the best interests of the greater region including those neighboring states. Continue reading →