DONALD TRUMP DISMANTLES GOVERNMENT AND THE PLANET WHILE HIS FANS CHEER

Donald Trump (AFP Photo/Rhona Wise )

Scott Pruitt, who disputes the reality of climate change, despite the science that says otherwise, and in contradiction to the majority of the scientific community; who has spent many years of his career fighting the EPA and its regulations that are necessary to the preservation of clean water and air and life on earth as we know it, has been picked by Donald Trump to head that very same agency.

Ben Carson, a surgeon with no administrative experience, no government experience, and no applicable education, has been tagged to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development. His ideology is hostile to the poor, whose interests he is supposed to serve in his capacity as head of this department.

Betsy de Vos was made the Secretary of Education. She is a billionaire heiress with no experience in education whatsoever, who has spent tremendous amounts of money in an effort to abolish the public school system and turn it into a voucher system for privately owned schools. Betsy herself has never attended a public school, and neither have her children. She is an elder in the "Christian Reformed Church" which holds a Calvinist theology.

The most alarming appointment, Chief political strategist Steve Bannon, has declared himself a Leninist. Of his political viewpoint, Bannon once said:

"Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal too. I want to bring

 everything crashing down and destroy all of today's establishment."

 ~ Steve Bannon  (SEE: THIS ARTICLE)

These are but A FEW of the incredible collection of billionaires Trump has begun to collect around himself; billionaires who are the opposite of the common man that voted him into office, and whose interests are the opposite of the common man. 

When you add up the fact that Trump's nominations, in the main, are people who have a long term antagonism toward the mission of the departments which Trump wants them to head, with the fact that Trump's primary political strategist is a Leninist who wants to tear down the government, and the added fact that they are all billionaires, all of us should be very very worried.

What will be left when Trump and his billionaire cronies destroy American democracy? Think about Cuba, where everyone is poor except the dictator and his cronies.

Trump's representatives have already begun to speak as if he is a dictator. 

“Our opponents, the media and the whole world 

will soon see, as we begin to take further actions, 

that the powers of the president to protect our 

country are very substantial and will not be questioned,” 

~ Stephen Miller, Trump's Senior Policy Director

It has become apparent, through comments made by Trump and his surrogates, that he is either ignorant of or dismissive of our government's system of checks and balances and he intends to behave as a king or dictator, rather than a part of a system into which he has been inserted.

God save us all.

Silver Rose Parnell

Copyright (c) 2017

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A SHORT COMMENT ABOUT EDUCATION

I dearly wish that our society was more invested in helping people obtain an excellent, well-rounded education.  In other developed nations, the academic standards are much higher and the education is free through college.

It is very difficult to communicate with people whose educational background is poor.  Those who have never studied the classic subjects, such as logic, for instance, come to the battle of life unarmed. Many "graduate" from high school unable to read at all.  Some "graduate" from college unable to think critically and are saddled with their own personal logic system as a disastrous substitute. Communicating with such people in a meaningful way is almost impossible, which accounts for parallel conversations in which the poorly developed person is incapable of understanding what you have said to them.  Their "answers" do not relate in any meaningful way to any question that is asked. The communications pass like ships on a foggy night. You can hear the noise of the fog horn, and that is all.

The thing that concerns me most is that, as the quality of our educational system sinks to the bottom of the scale in comparison to overall educational quality in the world, we are accumulating a vast legion of intellectual zombies.  This is nowhere more evident than in the political arena, where uninformed (and sometimes lying) oddballs garner a following of similarly vapid people.  It is easy to lead (and mislead) the masses when they are intellectually handicapped.  They are easily fooled by the smoke and mirrors of carefully crafted lies that are designed to arouse the baser instincts of anger and selfishness.

To help one another by paying the taxes to supply a quality education for everyone is enlightened self interest because a country run by idiots is an unpleasant place in which to live, unless you are one of the ultra-rich puppet masters that sits behind the scenes, throwing money at anyone who will cater to the agenda of the 1%, that agenda being to continue to funnel all the money and resources to the wealthy segment of the population while the zombies who vote for their candidates slowly starve to death.

Silver "Rose" Parnell
(c) 2015