Whether you are conservative or liberal no longer matters. Our American democracy is literally at stake!!
Listen carefully to the president’s words. He divides us. He uses cruelty and anger, and it usually inspires more hatred and violence. His ultimate goal is to replace America’s democracy with his unqualified cabinet and family-run monarchy… with him as the sole monarch.
Opponents to this–whether liberal, conservative, or independent–must quickly go on the offensive:
- Biden and other leaders of the opposition must articulate a powerful vision for America’s future, and a specific plan for how that will happen.
- Biden’s running mate and other supporters must very aggressively counter all cruel attacks, fear-mongering, anti-immigration comments, and white nationalist statements.
- Anti-Trump Republicans (some calling themselves the Lincoln Project), concerned independents, and young people wanting to unite the country, must speak out against fear-mongering rhetoric wherever it occurs.
- Also, journalists and patriots everywhere must learn how to recognize fake news, whether its origin is foreign or domestic, and take the lead in explaining and countering it.
Multiple bank loans and financing, foreign money laundering, repeated bankruptcies, criminal relationships, and personal greed, are all reasons why monarchs and dictatorships eventually fail. But sometimes entire societies and civilizations fall before that can happen.
RIGHT NOW WE ONLY HAVE THIS ONE CHANCE TO SAVE THE DEMOCRACY THAT MADE OUR COUNTRY EXCEPTIONAL… AND ALL AMERICAN PATRIOTS MUST QUICKLY COME TOGETHER TO SAVE IT!
Larry D. Lauer 
Biden’s speech today was an excellent response to these issues. The challenge is overcome trump’s tactics which seems to deny that he is president and responsible for the chaos going on now.
You are right on the money Larry. I’ll do all I can to defeat this wanna be autocrat.
History does not offer much encouragement for defenders of republican governments: Athens’ democracy, Rome’s Republic, Italy’s Florentine Republic, Venice’s oligarchic republic, Cromwell’s Parliamentary Commonwealth, France’s post-revolutionary consulate — few lasted more than a generation or two. Most lingered on as “republics” in name as they became monarchies in practice. That is the fate now looming for Ben Franklin’s republican experiment. A republic may always be an experiment more than a stable form of government. Its strength and its weakness spring from the same source: the support of the masses. America’s founders were set against monarchy, but they also feared that “too much” democracy would lead to demagogy. They set limits to the right to vote and divided governmental authority so that it might serve as a check on itself. But the Trump era has revealed the vulnerability of this kind of constitutional republic.
What happens in a two-party system if one party fears the power of its leader so much that it refuses to cooperate with the other party to provide the “checks and balances” that are the Constitution’s safeguards against the abuses of its executive branch? During the Watergate crisis, the Republican Party grasped the difference between its power and the power of its leader. It cooperated with the Democrats in pressuring Nixon to resign and bring the nation safely through a confrontation that might fatally have stressed the American “Union.”
Those of us who fear and oppose Trump might find that at least some of his Republican enablers would be open to rethinking their position if reminded that history supports the possibility that his fall would do more to save than threaten the future of their party and its conservative principles of government.