That Orange Face

That orange face. It stares out at you from your computer screen, TV screen, phone screen. But regardless of where you see it, that orange face is the symbol of a dictatorship that is taking hold in this country.

It often strikes me that orange man’s true archetype is that of a Big Fat Daddy, whose main goal is doing things that hurt or kill multitudes of people. With trump’s gutting of the CDC, Medicaid, money for research of all kinds, the destruction of the Department of Education, the banning of books, and every other horror show he has perpetrated, at every level of American life, it certainly looks like the administration’s goal is multi-faceted.

Kill off Americans. Only the strong will survive. Eugenics?

Make sure that Americans are ill-informed and uneducated so they are easier to dupe and brainwash.

Diminish the American quality of life so they’ll embrace whatever idiotic thing trump presents.

Make them pay more taxes than billionaires.

Make women have babies they don’t want or can’t afford because the Repugs, of course, are the only ones who respect life. Ha!

Issue fake statistics on crime rates in cities so trump’s private little army of ICE agents can sweep in and grab anyone who isn’t white and deport them.

Make christianity the official religion in this country. & if you aren’t christian, you’re suspect of…well, something.

Make it acceptable for Americans to see the military on the streets in their cities and towns.

Trash the constitution piece by piece, bit by bit, and revel in every decision the supreme court hands down in trump’s favor that cements his position as dictator.

One of the next horror shows is likely to be the supremes overturning gay marriage just as they did abortion.

Control colleges and universities so the government can dictate what is taught and to whom – i.e., rewrite historical facts about slavery, religion, voting rights…..

Take down trump’s personal enemies by charging them without evidence for some concocted crime

In other words the takeover is deliberate, insidious, and as malignant as the inside of trump’s warped mind.

If you’re okay with all this, well, good luck & too bad for your compromised soul.

If you’re incensed,  then get out and protest peacefully in huge numbers, in the millions. Because otherwise they are going to come for our first amendment rights, for the press, and democracy is done.