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Many of you are out there thinking you don’t have a dog in this fight. You were Republicans and thus anything the GOP and Donald Trump’s Many, Many, Many, Many Ties to Russia may accomplish has no bearing on your life, but I suspect you will come to realize how wrong you are.
Not right now, of course, because you are still aglow with his ascent to the White House.
But, if you aren’t paying attention or depending on your Whiteness to keep you safe, you may want to have someone hold that beer and read these collections of articles talking about just how far our Great Orange Leader is prepared to go to increase his personal wealth.
You can watch the opening moves where he is preparing his path to cement his control over entire industries, and leave you stuck with the externalities, the hidden costs and residue of his changes to the economic, social and environmental fabric of the world with his personally chosen Legion of Doom and the Congress of Inept Millionaires at his beck and call.
Yes, go ahead and call me an alarmist, name me your personal Cassandra if you must, but one of the reasons I write science fiction is to predict things just like this. And I am not the only person whose done this… See: George Orwell — 1984 (oops, too late. It’s all sold out in stores. Perhaps you can read a copy AFTER the Trumpocalypse.)
Yeah, go buy a copy of the book or dare I say it, go to the library.
Yes, go ahead and call me an alarmist, name me your personal Cassandra if you must, but one of the reasons I write science fiction is to predict things just like this. And I am not the only person whose done this… See: George Orwell — 1984.
Yeah, go buy a copy of the book or dare I say it, go to the library.
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This article is an excerpt of one originally published on the author’s Medium blog. It is republished here with permission.
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