- Joined
- Dec 5, 2009
- Messages
- 23,585
- Reaction score
- 18,052
- Location
- Indiana
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Other
Come at me with something tangible. "could be coming" is so nebulous that it could be applied to you or me or joe shmoe down the street.
Like I said it doesn't happen overnight. Here are the steps that can make it happen:
1. Expand your power base through nepotism and corruption.
Who do you know that has put family members in key Whitehouse positions, which was pretty much unheard of until now? And do I even have to show examples of the corruption?
2. Instigate a monopoly on the use of force to curb public protest.
We are now outlawing pubic protest and treating peaceful protesters as the enemy.
3. Curry favour by providing public goods efficiently and generously.
4. Get rid of your political enemies
5. Create and defeat a common enemy.
6. Accumulate power by manipulating the hearts and minds of your citizens.
7. Create an ideology to justify an exalted position
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/naturally-selected/201702/7-steps-becoming-dictator
I can easily show you examples of where Trump has and is doing all of this but I need to get some work done today. I'm self employed. If I don't work I don't eat.