Dismantling A Defeated America

AN ACADEMICIAN, whoe name, precise area of expertise and job title I cennot reember, made an interesting observation, in the form of ametaphor. The Trump administration, he offered, is governing as if the United States had been defeated in a war, and was now being controlled and governed by the conquering, occupying enemy. The purpose of the new rulers is to destroy democracy, and replace the traditional American democratic republic with a fascist dictatorship. The authoritarian dictator seeks not to enhance the strength, prosperity, and health of the United States, but rather, to reduce it to impotent, weak, submmission to its conqueror. The more I think about it, the more I tend to agree, the more I can see that the scholar indeed has a point. The federal government is being dismantled, from the bottom up. The Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, are all, effectively, gone. Tens of thousnds of governmental employees are being fired daily. Eventually whoever the dictator is after Trump will have no huge bureaucracy lurking, possibly harboring resistance to authoritarian rule and seeking to bring back democracy. Farewell to the "deep state". The United States, economically and diplomatically, is being systematically cut off from the world. We Americans have now started a world wide trade war, and have plainly indicated to the world that it intends to engage in aggressive territorial expansionism, just like it did in the nineteenth century, and has, for all intents and purposes, since its beginning. Perhaps Trump and Putin have made a nefarious, secret personal alliance, according to which the U.S. is being governed by and from Moscow, with Trump a willing participant. Probably not though. Its difficult to imagine why Putin and the Russians would want the United States to acquire Greenand, Canada, and the Panama Canal, all of which the Trump administration plainly wants to do. So far not much has been said about what percentage of MAGA nation favors these vast territorial acquisitions; one might presume that it is substantial. Obviously, America's hidden oppressive rulers want the country to be governed by an authoritarian dictatorship, with virtually no political power remaining for the people. Perhaps Putin has helped install Trump for his own fascist reasons, just like, in the nineteen thirties, Hitler installed Franco in Spain, a fellow fascist. Observers of geo-politics and international relations have observed that the nation of israel seems to have a great deal of control over the United States government, and thus the United States. The U.S. almost with fail does israels's bidding. But it may be that Putin and Russia have a even deeper type of control, by virtue of having twice helped Trump become president, and by virtue of Trump owing Putina and Russia..something. You might almost expect Trump to issue an executive order any day now, declaring that henceforth the president of the United states may serve as many as three terms, or as many as he or she desires. This would be no more outlandish than many of the executive orders already issued by Trump. If the Supreme Court fails to rule that the Trump agenda is illegal, America is in trouble, and the only recourse will be a massive nationwide progressive protest, in the media, and in the streets.