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Perseus

(4,341 posts)
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 09:42 AM Jan 2020

AT THE END OF THIS NIGHTMARE I WANT TO BE CALLED AN ALARMIST

I want people to say "all the quotes and messages you sent, they were all wrong, we have a new government now that is reversing all the damage that was done during trump's presidency, we are moving forward, and nothing terminal happened the past four years, you are an alarmist!". I will be so happy if all that has and continues to scare me regarding the future of the USA comes to nothing, that my daily worries from watching the rule of law being kicked around and no accountability to the perpetrators is ever appropriately given, while they just continue to perform traitorous actions on almost an hourly basis and while people simply don't seem to care.

I want to be called an alarmist for being wrong about seeing the parallels of what is happening in the USA with those of countries like Venezuela where people, for not caring enough, for allowing bad things to happen are now eating from the garbage, people dying because of lack of medicines, the best professionals leaving the country to throw away years of studies and preparation to instead do jobs cleaning houses, driving Uber, etc., those who were once famed doctors in their country are now waiting tables, all to escape injustice, dangers in their own backyard. I do see the parallels of what happened in Venezuela with what is going on in the USA. In Venezuela one of the first acts to destroy democracy was to fill the Supreme Court with "yes men", just like it is happening in the USA, in Venezuela they installed a corrupt attorney general, the USA now has Barr, in Venezuela all congress and senate of the corrupt party became "yes men", even those who criticized Chavez during the elections...any resemblance to the USA?

I have mentioned a book written in 1935 constantly, "It Can't Happen Here!" by Sinclair Lewis. This author saw trump in 1935, he told us in this book what would happen if a clown like trump ever reached the presidency, and his message was contrary to the title of the book, he was convinced then that USA voters are very stupid, and that the possibility of electing a trump was something that "Could Happen Here!", and although I contend that trump-the-con reached the presidency illegitimately by cheating in the key states that dominate the "Electoral College" decision, he nonetheless is now POTUS, and destroying the country and all that it stands for. The possibilities that the criminal con would give the keys of the country to Putin are very real, and for those of you who think that "It Can't Happen Here!", that is exactly what Venezuelans said for many years until Chavez gave the key of the country to Fidel Castro. Chavez/Fidel Castro, trump/Putin, the only difference is in the names.

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AT THE END OF THIS NIGHTMARE I WANT TO BE CALLED AN ALARMIST (Original Post) Perseus Jan 2020 OP
I remember many years ago my sister-in-law said of Hitler "it can't happen here" katmondoo Jan 2020 #1
K&R, uponit7771 Jan 2020 #2

katmondoo

(6,457 posts)
1. I remember many years ago my sister-in-law said of Hitler "it can't happen here"
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 10:09 AM
Jan 2020

I didn't believe it as there were indications in the Republican party that there were people who would support a Hitler type here. I never pictured a Trump.

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