The course MAGA has taken to obtain absolute power is methodical.
To get rid of the foreign elements represented by immigrants and to “take the country back”, Democracy must be undone because Democracy is a “woke” idea, which advocates, promotes, and defends the freedom and equality of everyone that do not fit in with MAGA’s scheme of things.
It started with gaining political power WITHIN the democratic framework to avoid being crushed in the embryo. They did not look far to find the answer to the question of how to do it. MAGA is not just rednecks. Billionaires and many brightest minds are in their rank, who do not like Democracy and prefer Oligarchy or even dictatorship. They are endowed with exceptional talent and intelligence, so they are naturally arrogant, feel superior, and have little tolerance for slower or less intelligent people. They hate being talked back. When they say do “this” they expect others to do exactly “this” no question asked. Clearly, Democracy has no good use for them.
MAGA’s brightest minds readily found the experiences of the Soviet Union and China’s proletariat revolutions useful. Mao said during the Korean War that you (the Americans) have the atomic bomb, but we (the Chinese) have the people. That sums up Lenin’s and Mao’s insight that from the people, political and even military power would be created. It is profound but simple: in the U.S. that power would come from the voters.
Because of their ideology, MAGA obviously did not expect a majority of American voters would support it especially non-white Americans, who felt themselves to be the scorn of MAGA. But white voters still held the majority. MAGA was therefore presented with the question of how to get their vote, or to be exact, the majority of their votes.
To call upon the white folks to line up behind them was difficult and complicated not only because of political correctness but also white forks did like and had had feelings and respect for other people too. They had been married into other races all over the country and had voted for woke Democrats. The hurdle MAGA had to overcome was tremendous requiring drastic and risky strategy, which had to be potentially so powerful that it would bully through political correctness and pull most if not all white into MAGA’s camp.
They found it: racism.
The clannish mentality seems normal in America. Yale versus Harvard, UCLA versus USC, it is artificial but useful. When it comes to races, competitiveness becomes extremely ferocious because the emotion is more basic and animalistic. Education and law could only help to keep it under a thin layer. With a little prodding, especially from one main political party, the beast would readily wake up. If the country was being invaded, immigrants flooded society with foreign wicked ideas and customs, another country of a different race was competing neck and neck with the white race, white people would stand up in unison to fight for their tradition and values, or more easily felt and understood by the white, or to be truthful by any multitude, for their race. That would trump any feeling white have for other racial relationships including spousal relationship, regardless of how warm it was.
Winning political races is only the means to reach the next goal. For years, MAGA worked doggedly to eradicate the legacy of a black president, so they fully expected that a woke administration would try to bring down any creation by MAGA. So, the next goal would be to stay in power for a long period of time long enough to solidify MAGA grip on the country. To do so, MAGA needed to invoke the mentality of “us” against “them” as long as possible and cause a feeling in the people of uneasiness and uncertain by creating chaos.
But sooner or later, white people would get tired of demagoguery and extremism, realize the phoniness of the race issue, and vote MAGA out. To prevent that from happening is their next goal, which is the dismantling of Democracy and replacing it with an Oligarchy or Dictatorship in the form of the Putin or Kim Jong Un regime. Or even better, an Aristocracy.
The scary thing is the Democrats and the Republicans who love and respect Democracy suddenly disappear from the American political map, withdrawing into the far side of the moon and putting all their hope in the Supreme Court – the same court with six extremely conservative members who voted for everything MAGA, including discarding a sixty-year precedent that protected women’s rights and the expansion of presidential immunity and power.
How to dismantle Democracy?
JOHN P. LE PHONG
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