Democrazy Version 2020: A Warning to All U.S. Citizens
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I had a TOP SECRET Security Clearance by my sixteenth birthday, and was working in my father's office at the age of seventeen. He was the head of a CIA undercover U.S. West Coast operation. I continued CIA employment for many years. By my mid-thirties, I worked with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Denver, Colorado - also with a TOP SECRET clearance. As the Data Base Manager for the largest Russian-language military, technical, and intelligence library in the United States, we did C3 analysis and played the "red" team on the White House War Games. I was taught to read, write, and speak Russian. I began traveling to the Soviet Union and over time became one of the few Americans living and working in Russia for decades. I became bicultural and this unique perspective on Russia and their relationship with the United States is the essential ingredient and the warning inferred in this book.
Having lived under the oppressive orthodoxy of Communism, I endured numerous chilling "lessons" of Soviet official egoism, bureaucracy, and absolute rule. I also learned to love Russians. A Russian proverb says "Russians are not happy unless they are crying." This depth of of "Russian souls" is reflected in their amazing culture, art, theaters, and everyday life. Their hardships endured over centuries has shaped a society of people with an unfathomable sense of humanity.
It was Karl Marx who wrote the Manifest of the Communist Party in the 1800's. He believed that racial superiority existed to explain civilizational differences and was consolidated in the United States for continuing oppression. Thus, as far back as the mid-1800s, the Russian explanation of American-style racism was taught in Russian society. The difference is that Marx's reasoning was based on economic justifications, whereby the reality of U.S. racism is based on morale justification for the inhumanity of slavery. This U.S. gruesome form of racism has been handed-down over countless generations so that many White citizens today do not understand their own thoughts on this issue nor do they realize the ingrained hatred that they often unknowingly display.
Former President Trump's speeches were filled with hatred. He has a sizable following of similar-thinking voters throughout the U.S. who empathize with him. These "followers" included elected members of the U.S. Senate, where no Republican voted to impeach him despite the fact that he was impeached twice in the House of Representatives and the evidence (both times) was verifiable, indisputable, and one-hundred percent accurate. These Senators did not do their jobs or uphold the law. They are as afraid of Trump as the members of the DUMA in Moscow are of Putin. It is called a dictatorship and NOT a democracy when the leader rules by instilling fear in elected government officials so they do as he wishes. The reason that I understand this monumental shift in our democracy is because I have experienced life under Putin's leadership and lived in several other dictator-led countries.
Trump filed four bankruptcies. When U.S. financial institutions refused to loan him money, he turned to ruthless wealthy Russian Oligarchs. These Russians operate much like Al Capone - a borrower pays back a loan - at ridiculous and unattainable interest rates - or they or a member of their families dies. Paybacks can be in money or in "favors." Putin was well informed of Trump's history of not repaying his debts and he was an easy snare for an expert Russian spy. It appears that Trump sold his soul - and our democracy - to Russia. Trump's potential "pay back" was to continue to respond to Putin's requests as the President of the U.S. Trump's violent attempt to overthrow the 2020 election was his "last ditch" attempt to save his own skin. Of course, Trump wants to run again in the 2024 election, but our democracy cannot afford another four years of Donald Trump.
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