How to Stop the Coming Trump Dynasty

Trump will not accept the election results if he loses but he can be made irrelevant.

It is difficult to imagine the United States ruled by a Royal Dynasty, a King. The America Revolution freed us from that and we got George Washington as our first President.

The Founding Fathers experimented with a new type of government, a Federal Republic that operates as a democratic republic. A key difference with the Constitutional Republics of Rome and Greece is the peaceful transition of power, a new idea at the time.

After much discussion and sometimes heated argument, a Constitution was drafted for the new government. The first ten Amendments, the Bill of Rights, enumerated natural, God-given rights that cannot be taken from a person as opposed to those granted by government. It then laid out the basic structure of a tripartite central government composed of a legislative body, a court system and an executive branch.

No king or Dynasty required.

A system of “checks and balances” was included to prevent any one of the three branches from gaining too much power over the other two. But it provided no means to stop two branches from consolidating undue power.

The Constitution of United States of America was adopted as the framework under which all laws would be written and judged against.

Truly a government of, by, and for the people.

And, to a degree, it worked. Not so well for everyone but Jefferson suggested the Constitution be reevaluated every generation to be sure it worked for the growing nation and amended as needed. But the ability to amend the Constitution was deliberately made difficult. And the language concerning the office of the chief executive was specifically written to prevent any unfit person to hold the office of the President.

And until this century, that worked.

But we now have an “unfit” man playing the role of President, a heartless, cruel, narcissistic buffoon who claims he is the greatest President America has ever had.

He has committed treason, added greatly to his own wealth at taxpayer expense, loves dictators and strongmen, is a friend to our enemies and enemy of our friends.

He was told in November 2019 about the SARS CoV2 pandemic but did nothing to prepare for it. Now, with one-hundred eighty-five thousand Americans dead and a death toll of more than two-hundred thousand and growing predicted by election day, he still insists his early, bold actions have conquered the virus and it will be gone one day soon, like magic it will disappear. Like everything, it will just be gone.

But it isn’t going away and claiming a vaccine will be ready soon so businesses should open up, people want to get out, shop… yes, more will die but that’s acceptable, better than shutting down the economy because that’s the only thing he has to run on.

No safe, effective vaccine is expected anytime soon but reelection is more important than those who suffer and die, and he will do anything to remain in office.

He is the first President to say he might not accept the results of the election.

He says he deserves a third term to make up for the first because Democrats stopped him from keeping his campaign promises. Not the 200 days spent golfing on the taxpayer’s dime.

For Trump, three terms are a steppingstone to his true goal: being President for life like many of his best friends.

For months, he has claimed, without evidence, that the election will be rigged against him, vote by mail is fraudulent because millions of illegals and dead people will vote. So, his million-dollar-donor Postmaster General has removed mail sorting machines that process thousands of pieces of mail per hour in nine swing states and states Trump must win to be reelected.

Florida (59) Texas (58) Ohio (34) Pennsylvania (30) Michigan (26) North Carolina (15) Virginia (12) Wisconsin (12) Georgia (11)

Those sorting machines were supposedly needed immediately at other locations but are disassembled and stored in warehouses. If they are needed elsewhere, why are they not being installed at those locations?

And they will not be put back or moved to where they are needed until after the election.

To further slow mail in ballots, mailboxes in several states have been removed from low-income areas, the Post Office will no longer process ballots as First-Class mail and Postal workers will not get over-time pay so that all mail is delivered on time

Voting by mail will be huge this year due to the corona virus and because some states have dramatically reduced the number of polling stations. Kentucky dropped from 3,700 polling locations to 200 for November’s election. Jefferson County, Kentucky, with a population of 767,000 and 616,523 registered voters also happens to be where almost half of all Blacks in Kentucky live now has a single polling location for the entire county and the city of Louisville.

Clearly systemic voter suppression. Trump is right, voter fraud does exist, with his encouragement.

To be fair, Kentucky does encourage mail in voting and will allow a week of early voting. Absentee votes postmarked by Election day will be counted even if they arrive late. Record voter turnout is expected and with only two-hundred polling locations statewide, much of that will be by mail but with the Postal Service crippled, ballots may still be late.

But kneecapping the post office is just one way making it harder to vote. States with Republican Governors and legislatures have been actively purging voter rolls, with the largest number in Georgia; 540,000 voters purged before the 2018 election, and after Court-forced corrections, the number was lowered to 340,00, primarily in the poorer districts of Democrat run cities.

Trump’s complaints about mail in voting fraud and the “rigged” election system is an attempt to prepare his supporters to believe the election was rigged.

He will claim Democrats stole the election because they cannot accept that they lost in 2016 and those liberal snowflakes can’t get over the fact that Trump is the duly elected President. I do not understand the “duly elected” part that so many of Trump’s supporters use when calling liberals and progressives “snowflakes”; is there such a thing as an “unduly elected” US President?

When he loses, Trump will fight to the end; he and his Republican enablers do not want to lose the power they have and must keep Trump in Office.

He can easily whip up anger among “true patriots who love America” then use their anger and hatred of the “other” to justify his refusal to accept defeat. His attorneys have lawsuits prepared and ready to file November 4th over the integrity of the ballots, the accuracy of the count, those who counted the ballots, mailed in and absentee ballots- many ballots that have even a comma missing will be thrown out.

He tells his followers at rallies that “those” people who do not support him hate America and are not even human, they are “animals”.

He rails about people exercising their Constitutional rights, calls them looters, arsonists, anarchists, criminals.

Many of those looters, anarchists or arsonists are White Nationalist groups that come from out of town with the express purpose of instigating trouble to make the protestors appear to be responsible.

Outsiders who harass protestors, walk around in military gear, long rifles on full display or drive around town during protests, American and Confederate flags flying on the vehicles as they shout obscenities, threats, shoot paint ball guns into protestors and wave their real guns high for all to see how tough they are when they’re armed. They are some of those “fine people on both sides”.

He has the support of hate groups, TV ministries, Evangelicals and those who just honestly suffer economically and believe that he, and no one else, can protect them from their enemies, those Democrats who will take away their God-given Rights.

“This and no other is root from which a tyrant springs: when he first appears as a protector.”- Plato

Trump has the advantage of being the incumbent, and funding from the RNC and some of the richest oligarchs in the world, foreign interference and a fanatical base that would make him President for life if they could.

Born into wealth his father gained by cheating the government on housing projects, Trump is a narcissist, philanderer, grifter, failed businessman who lines his pockets with taxpayer money as his slide into dementia grows more apparent by the day. And his Administration brings nepotism to a new high.

He doles out government positions to big donors willing to dismantle the Agency’s they lead.

Trump embodies, in spades, the kind of “unfit” man the Constitution was written to protect us from, yet he still may win another term as President. He holds a great deal of power and like a cornered animal, he will lash out tooth and nail, or in his case with money, Courts and lawyers.

“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower.

If Trump wins the election in November, the United States of America will not exist in 2024. It will literally be the end of the world as we know it.

And Trump will finally have what he wants: a true Trump Dynasty™ with Don Jr. our next Leader. Unless, of course, Ivanka Trump™ steals it from him. Family disagreements are cutthroat in Dynastic families.

This all may sound exaggerated but, to our misfortune, it is as close to true as truth can be.

And there is only one way to stop the worsening dystopia and that depends on doing everything possible to honor the Constitution and its “peaceful transfer of power” that brave men wrote for this nation more than two-hundred and thirty years ago.

Vote Trump and his enablers out of Office.

Most states allow early or absentee voting. If yours does then cast your ballot early. It is may be safe to mail it but considering the intended interference with ballots, voting by mail should be a last resort unless it is mailed weeks in advance. To be certain your vote is counted, rather than “lost” in the mail, turn it in at your registrar’s office or to the city/county clerk.

And Do not forget down ballot candidates.

We need the Senate and the House to get any real change. Otherwise, Mitch will raise his head out of the swamp and snatch anything from Democrats. The House has passed dozens of major, progressive bills ready for the Senate to take up.

Infrastructure, unions and worker inequality, systemic racism, clean energy, the environment, climate change, taxation, healthcare and more, all of which means new jobs.

But first, the virus must be contained- it is not going away but can be controlled -and it will be part of the new America that replaces the old “normal”. We need a restructured society and have a chance to build it. Maybe our last chance.

Despite unreliable mail, “voter monitors” for Trump at polling places, far fewer polling places which means packed lines of unmasked morons, and a shortage of poll workers, many of whom are retired and for understandable reasons do not want to risk exposure, we must ensure as many people as possible can safely cast their ballot this year.

Vote Riders is a one-stop place to get voter ID and any other voting information needed in your state and offers ways you can volunteer to help get the huge voter turnout we need now, more than ever. Even a small donation will help.

Trump acts as though he is backed into a corner and he does not want to be taken down off his high horse. And a lot of rich people do not want that either. People who, like Trump, can be best described as snakes. And snakes hide until you get within striking distance.

They have more money than imaginable, and they play dirty.

We must play to win.

We need a landslide this election.

The #BlueWave2018

Was a thing of wonder and we need even more of that kind of dedication to defeat Trump’s final play to establish his Dynasty.

We need a #BlueTsunami

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