Monday, February 6, 2017

#resist Trump’s Assault on America’s Democracy

We need a CONTINUAL RESISTANCE to President Trump's BIGOTRY and his ASSAULT upon America's FUNDAMENTAL DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES!


"Donald Trump has changed his mind on these 7 campaign promises", by Amy Graff; The San Francisco Chronicle, November 15, 2016

NO objective observer can doubt that President Trump does not give the press basic adequate access to his policy positions and that he routinely purveys falsehoods as well as vague and frequently changeable versions of his beliefs and policy positions.

"Trump wages war against the media as demonstrators
protest his presidency" 
Moreover, President Trump shares this with other demagogic leaders that have attempted to undermine democratic governance (and too frequently succeeded in creating Authoritarian regimes) – that he ENGAGES IN A “WAR” AGAINST PRESS COVERAGE that results in the public not being adequately able to fully and accurately understand reality, e.g. the threat from human driven global warming.
            
"Media critic: Press needs to stop acting like Trump’s ‘botoxed Riefenstahls’ and realize he’s at war with them." by Tom Boggioni, Raw Story, Feb. 4, 2017

The most important issue in regard to President Trump's WAR AGAINST THE PRESS is not the lack of access, the falsehoods or the frequent flipping positions/meanings. It is the implicit and explicit bullying treatment and threats of punishment – familiar in authoritarian regimes (ideological – China, oligarchic – Russia, military - Egypt, nominally democratic – Turkey). Whether and how President Trump will cross the line by using the legal system for punishment, remains to be seen.

AN INFORMED, ACTIVELY ENGAGED CITIZENRY IS
THE GREAT BULWARK AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM.

CONTINUAL RESISTANCE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S WAR ON A FREE PRESS IS FUNDAMENTAL TO PROTECTING AMERICA'S DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.

#TheResistance

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