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Tonight
A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible early. Cloudy early with partial clearing expected late. Low 73F. Winds light and variable.
There are different ways to establish an authoritarian state: the flamboyant way or the sneaky way. The first, a coup dÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™etat with troops marching in the streets. Old hat. The second is more common today. The Putin-Orban-Erdogan recipe; a three-course dinner.
The entree: get elected and then eviscerate the legislative and judicial branches of government, and stifle the press. Use the police and army if necessary to crush dissent in the name of national security. Deporting all the ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œundesirables,ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ even U.S. citizens, is a side salad. Ranch dressing, anyone?
For the appetizer, propaganda to rewrite history in favor of the leaders and to vilify the minorities for any past misfortunes. Be sure to control the universities where they educate the young to question authority.
And the dessert, before the cheese and coffee, to create chaos. Destabilize the economy, create fear among the populace, their cost of living, their livelihoods and their pensions in jeopardy. The cream on their pie is to make us come begging at their table.
The cheese and coffee, and a digestif, for all of us may not be an option if democracy is gone. After the meal, all of us are to clean up after the oligarchs have left the dining room. A few crumbs left for us to sweep up, shreds of our Constitution on the floor, bits of torn paper promising to protect our hard-earned pensions, our social and medical security, and to keep our dreams alive for all Americans, young and old. More tatters dealing with our allies and international trade. Big dustbins at Mar-a-Lago and in the White House, I assume? We know, not recyclable in this anti-environment administration.
I wonder what President Trump is eating this evening with his superrich dinner guests? ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œLet them eat cake.ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥
