The world’s most dangerous man?

 As I am about to enter my 9^th decade on this troubled world I increasingly find it harder to put my thoughts in to words and thus rarely share them here on Democracy Under Fire but it would seem that we must all speak out to save it from total mayhem.

The following short extract from a recent article on The Hill outlines perhaps the most troubling particular want to be dictator / authoritarian but we dont have to look far from home to see various 'leaders' with a similar mind set. World wide there seems to be an ever increasing movement to this mindset … or is it just that those of that inclination are more able to spread their divisive rhetoric easier with via the influence of 'social media' ?

“It is easy to drift into alarmed hyperbole about Donald Trump’s second presidency. The guardrails and principled advisers who discouraged his authoritarian proclivities during his first term are no longer there. Without them, and with his advancing age, he has become the most dangerous man in the world. 

Some in the hyper-muscular manosphere (the so-called “secretary of War” is one) may consider that a compliment. It is not. The person who currently commands the awesome weapons of the presidency lacks the temperament, mental stability and moral compass required for the job. The American republic and the international order are hanging by a thread..................

The unadorned truth is that Trump’s broken moral compass, overactive testosterone, sycophantic staff, pathological narcissism, and extraordinary presidential powers make him a clear and present danger to the republic and the world...............

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5646761-trump-second-presidency-danger/

William S. Becker is co-editor of and a contributor to “Democracy Unchained:

 

 

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Rural mail goodbye?

 

For decades, residents living in rural areas around eastern Ontario could tell they had mail delivered if the flag on their mailbox was up.

Now, they’re being told Canada Post delivery agents will no longer raise the flag because that was never what the indicator was meant for in the first place.........

“it seems a little bit odd that given a time when Canada Post is struggling to survive and wanting large raises and wanting to gain more of the market share that they’re going to offer less service and less convenience to the public when they deliver their mail,”

Exactly …...It would seem that SOME 'delivery agents' are determined to drive everybody to alternative methods of sending and receiving important stuff, Email and courier services here I come!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/canada-post-no-longer-raising-flag-to-indicate-mail-in-rural-areas/

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The killing of critical thinking.

 The removal of any one critical of any literature that does not match that of the new U.S. regime has now reached even the naval libraries. When the those in the armed services are only permuted to read authorized books the U.S. of Eh is truly well on the way to authoritarianism and perhaps already is an oligarchy.

Steve Israel who represented New York in the House of Representatives for eight terms writes in part...

The New York Times reported that the U.S. Naval Academy is identifying books in the school’s Nimitz Library that may be pulled from circulation because they relate to so-called diversity, equity and inclusion. Among the 900 potential offenders: a biography of Jackie Robinson, “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.” and “Einstein on Race and Racism.”........

The move is part of the Trump administration’s campaign to purge its way through federal museums, concert halls and now the military. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — who might want to focus on threats closer to home, like how he communicates war plans — ordered the review......

(this)act of banning history books in a naval library is a betrayal of the men and women who keep us free.

The irony in this move is rich. In the name of freedom, we mustn’t let our future leaders do things like, oh, read what they want to read. We must treat them like snowflakes, so brittle and sensitive that they must be protected from the offensive views of Robinson, King, Einstein and whoever else is on the blacklist of the Navy Blue and Gold.........

Instead of supporting our warriors with libraries that will give them an unvarnished telling of history, the Pentagon has decided to whitewash it. Instead of encouraging critical thinking skills, the Navy has decided to dull them.

In a world of volatile, complex military threats; of cyberwarfare and an artificial intelligence arms race; of existential enemies like Iran nearing imminent development of a nuclear warhead; the Hegseth doctrine suggests that there is nothing to fear but ink on pages, bound on the shelves in the Navy library. In the war on so-called “cancel culture,” the U.S. military is canceling history.

When the leader of our neighboring country starts dictating what his military can read and think things are getting VERY scary, particularly when at the same time he is firing hundreds of leaders that do not conform to his twisted view of the world. Full article below....

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5228318-the-navy-cant-fight-for-freedom-while-banning-books/

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