https://englishcode.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/the-free-press-is-the-immune-system-of-our-democracy/
Besides the daily dissaray, here’s what I’ve noticed about Donald Trump’s first weeks in office. Trump asks for everything first, and settles for what he can get later.
He started by asking that the Republican ethics committee be disbanded. That way his shenanigans and back door deals could go undetected. That try failed.But he tried, right?
He asked for a Muslim ban, and when that did not work he has it rephrased so it has a better chance. This is what he calls the “art of the deal”, is it not? Actually, this is a very old carnie business prototype that I learned in the 1980’s with Trump from survivors of the Great Depression – the then old folks, those who could remember the Nuckie Thompson days of Atlantic City. It’s also a technique used by salesmen of high-priced blind items, like diamonds. They ask for the moon, settle for what you can get. Not really an art is it?
But Donald Trump did not think this through. As a businessman, you can do this sort of negotiating over and over again, because no one is following you around from deal to deal. The deals are made in back rooms. It does not get old real fast.
But when you are the president of a free and open society there is some transpapressrency on deals. This is why he says the press is our enemy. What a lie that statement is. It is totally the opposite of the truth.
And so, the modus operandi of asking for too much first, gets exposed, but only if there is a free press. It makes the POTUS look like an unprepared clown, which lowers his standing in the public’s minds and also in the minds of those he might be negotiating with, like foreign rulers. He becomes a less effective negotiator. It works only if his offers can be made in secrecy, and hopefully he won’t have much of that back room secrecy as president. We need a free press more then ever.
And this is what Trump did not figure out. He thought that being president of the USA would be just like being president of Trump Inc. But it’s not. There is scrutiny. And that scrutiny has already got him alientated by almost everyone but his base. Even his base is now beginning to see through his rough edges. In the end, all he will have left are the haters and his swamp creatures. There are not that many of them. Most folks really know we had a good thing going here in the USA. It wont be long. He has got to go.
This is also why he has made so few position choices in the last 30 days. To work for Donald Trump, you have to abandon your priviate ideas of what America is, and swear to protecting the secrets of Donald Trump. This way, he can get his private agenda done and not get exposed.
And we all know what Trump’s private agenda has been and what it has always been: to get richer. That oil deal for Putin, since they have him blackmailed for tax evasion, is #1 on his list. But it won’t stop there. Beware.
Today, Trump says if you don’t share his vision of America you should step down from office. Tomorrow, he will say if you don’t share his vision of America, you are a criminal. Thats is how they got normal Germans to be Nazi enforcers. It’s coming folks. He won’t let anyone stop his greed disease, because it is a disease, an addiction to fill up the void of his life. Judges, dead war heroes, protestors, not even the Pope has yet stopped this addict from getting his fix.
But those loyal to him are going down with his ship just the way Hitler’s henchmen did. They should think about that. They are risking it all for him. And he was a draft dodger who risked nothing for others – ever.
Trump is a cancer. He does what a cancer does. He eats and eats – and tries not to be detected. The free press is the immune system of our democracy. We need to bolster that immune system more than ever before, because we are under attack … by a cancer.
RAISE OUR VOICES!
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