Chidi
No one believes trump's office carries no powers. No one believes he won't bring enormous harm to minorities. Do you think his attorney general nominee, a notorious racist, will protect civil rights for minorities? Do you really know how the system works here?
I hope there will be restraints; no one knows.but every single intelligent commentator expresses worry or horror.
Start w krugman's columns, or Charles blow's columns. They are telling the truth, as far as I understand it. Bland reassurances are meaningless. We face the crisis, and either look at it and oppose it, or take the blame. I mentioned historical monsters. The next question is, how to oppose them, not to explain to me how they differed from trump. Hitler and Mussolini came to power legally, within democratic orders. Maybe 50 million people died thanks to fascism. I recognize its traits, its features, in trump's rhetoric. I marched yesterday to express solidarity in opposition to his politics, and to fascism, and I wasn't alone in reading it that way.
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On 22/01/17 11:10, "Chidi Anthony Opara" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com on behalf of chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:
The fellows you mentioned were corrupted by absolute powers.
Abacha, for instance, was hailed as a patriot in 1983, when as a Brigadier(now Brigadier-general),he announced the overthrow of the very corrupt and clueless Shehu Shagari government.
Again, in 1994,he was approached to help remove the Shonekan interim contraption and install MKO Abiola said to have won the June 12th,1993 presidential election, he did remove Shonekan and again was hailed.
It was when he tasted absolute powers that the monster in him showed up.
The institutions in US now, will however, check any possible Trump excesses. So comparing Trump with the fellows mentioned earlier is not appropriate.
CAO.
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