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Friday, November 18, 2016

WHERE THE HELL ARE WE GOING?

I've been watching our nations politics and election cycles cycles for a long time, (think Kennedy, 1960). It has often been messy, and I've seen some pretty crazy things happen in our country during that time span. But now is the first time I have ever really felt frightened. Frightened of what this country is becoming, and where we might possibly be headed in the next four years.
 The path that the Donald is taking with his administration pics, is a road that has been well traveled in the past by various despots around the globe, that one can easily draw parallels to. It begins with demonizing one or more segments of the population, then work  to curtail access by  denigrating and demeaning the free press,  as well as blaming them for some of the nations a legend woes.  And then making a concerted effort to cut the Free Press out of the equation,  at least so far as covering the White House and the Donald's public presence.  I think we will see the  White House press corps severely limited, if not totally blocked from covering the Donald, (I will never call him president) What I do believe, is that  over the next four years of this upcoming administration, we will see personal liberties reduced we will see a White House and administration shrouded in secrecy the public will have a little knowledge of what is being done where it's being done and by who. Think about it, we don't know who the Donald's doing business with. He never released his tax returns. And, he is a pathological liar of epic proportions.  How can any reasonable person believe anything that comes out of the man's mouth? With  Trump family members wanting, and probably gaining top-secret clearance, appointment of political zealots such as Mike Flynn, and Steve Bannon, not to mention hard core anti immigrationist  Jeff Sessions, is a harbinger of a dark time for our republic. And when you add to that the fact that the House and the Senate are now controlled by gutless individuals who love party over country, it's not hard to imagine where we might wind up in four years..
. This is  such a sad state of affairs.

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