~American Politics 2023-24 ~
Facts, History, Media and Opinion
First Let's Deal with Facts
On December 17, 2023 while sparking new backlash from critics that his anti-immigrant sentiment echoes Adolf Hitler.
"They're poisoning the blood of our country. That's what they've done," Trump said Saturday in Durham, New Hampshire. "They're coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, over the world. They're pouring into our country."
The former president, again, praised authoritarian leaders including Hungary's Viktor Orban, China's Xi Jinping and North Korea's Kim Jong Un -- and called President Joe Biden a "threat to democracy," reversing a frequent attack of Biden on him. Trump went on to quote Russia's president when calling the criminal cases pending against him "politically motivated." Prosecutors have rejected that accusation and defended their work. see (ABC NEWS report by Lalee Ibssa , Soo Rin Kim, Libby Cathey, and Gabriella Abdul-Hakim December 18, 2023, 4:54 am).
When Senator Lendsy Graham was asked about the language that the current front runner on Meet the Press his response was "I could care less about what language people use as long as we get it right".
When Dealing with History let's Deal with History
When we revisit history we could go back to the 1800 and early 1900s on the ideology of fascism and racism in America and around the world. However, lets just look at history from early March.-1933 as Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and ultimately Führer of Germany on August 2, 1934. It was Hitler who wrote in his book "All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning". Throughout the book, Jews are equated with "germs'' and presented as the "international poisoners" of society. According to Hitler's ideology, the only solution was their extermination. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.
During the time of Hitler's rise to power, there was a sense of apathy and ignorance by those who ignored the words that were coming from a mad man. Hitler continued to face some opposition within the Nazi Party. Opponents of Hitler in the leadership had Hermann Esser expelled from the party, and they printed 3,000 copies of a pamphlet attacking Hitler as a traitor to the party. In the following days, Hitler spoke to several large audiences and defended himself and Esser, to thunderous applause. His strategy proved successful, and at a special party congress he was granted absolute power as party chairman, succeeding Drexler, by a vote of 533 to 1.
In the United States in 1932, America was a nation living in fear. A global depression - the worst in history - had thrown millions out of work. Unemployment was approaching 25 percent. Factories were silent. During the 1930s, the combination of the Great Depression and the memory of tragic losses in World War I contributed to pushing American public opinion and policy toward isolationism. Isolationists advocated non-involvement in European and Asian conflicts and non-entanglement in international politics.
In an article authored by Lily Rothman fr Time Magazine on October 4, 2028, she points out that the threat of Nazism in the United States before World War II was greater than we generally remember today, and that those forces offer valuable lessons decades later — and not just because part of that story is the history of the “America First” idea, born of pre-WWII isolationism and later reborn as a slogan for now-former President Donald Trump.
The Media:
What is the role of a news reporter? Reporters gather news and information through multiple sources, verify the source for reliability and the information for accuracy, create a report and submit it to an editor or producer. They obtain information from their contacts, through personal interviews, press conferences and from other news agencies. A reporter is a journalist who uses investigation and research to gather the details of a story or event, and deliver the facts to the public through a medium or platform. The topics reporters could research include local and global events and often involve field investigation. The role of a reporter is responsible for delivering updates and analysis on current events with the main goal to keep the public updated. They create stories and breaking news through different channels such as radio, television, online news sites, and printed newspapers and magazines.
The Opinion:
My mother taught us many truths. If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything, never be a follower, be a leader and if you fail to know where you come from, your history, you are doomed to repeat it, when you see injustice speak up against it no matter how unpopular it may be.
America is not standing up and we're falling for the biggest con since the rise of Hitler and Benito Mussolini because we are failing to remember where we come from, our history, we are doomed because we are repeating it, Our press, politicians and yes, the American voter are all guilty.
In knowing our American history, how can 58% fifty-eight percent of likely Republican caucus voters say they support the former president. That's not a con being perpetrated or a cult, that is standing for something, that is being exactly who their grandparents were in America in 1932 as a nation living in fear. Fear of becoming the new minority, fear of seeing America becoming what it was meant to be in the purest form of our Declaration of Independence, and principle, central claim that “all men are created equal” is becoming a reality for all of its citizens because inherently they believed that those words only applied to white men and not South Americans, Asians, Jewish and African descendants. This fear is a top-down philosophy starting with the 1% of the wealthiest white American men and women in power carrying down to the 99% percent of poorest white American men and women who carry the same fear and grievance, especially men. You can call it White Nationalism but it translates to 58% fifty-eight percent of likely Republican caucus voters who support Donald Trump, not over looking that if you had Reagan Democrats and Reagan Independent voters it's a safe bet that you also have Democratic and Independent voters who support Doanld Trump and with an Electoral College, third party candidates it's not a given that Joe Biden will win the 2024 election.
That opinion would explain the need for old white men's need to control women's healthcare decisions, what is taught in schools and what is not; on the redrawing of districts and all the tings that they believe would give them control. That opinion is a better understanding of why like Madison Avenue, the Constitution of the United States only applies when the issues involve money or the money that controls the narrative. As long as there is a buying power within a block of an issue being the law or a particular section of people can usurp the status quo or the law. This is the reason why both the Supreme Court and the American people are willing to ignore Section 3 of the Civil War-era 14th Amendment saying “No person shall ... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States ... who, having previously taken an oath ... as an officer of the United States ... to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion. So is America now a country that will uphold Democracy or have we become a Cult to Autocrats?
