Fearing Kristallnacht.2016

(This post is my letter to my brother Gary, in response to his query about how I am dealing with the recent election.)

Gary,

I am in shock*.

I understood that people did not know what they were voting for when they voted for Trump.

For many he was a joke. Others actually believed that Trump will magically, “Make America Great Again”.  I guess, for them, that means like a 1950s “America” of their imagination.

Still others see him as the ultimate outsider and identify with him. For example, many if not all, of our women friends voted for Trump, I guess out of repudiation of another Clinton in office. Trump successfully pinned onto Hillary all the "wrongs" which were committed by past "power-holders" - Republicans, Democrats, the "Oligarchs". He managed to accomplish this while being the obvious embodiment of American Predatory Capitalism. In some twisted way, people believe that is a good thing.

Why they ignored his “lack of character” is a mystery to me. How these women believe that their children and grandchildren will be positively served by President Trump is well beyond my comprehension.

Nearly everyone was fixed on Hillary’s emails and not one of these people gave a second thought to Mr. Trump’s serious legal problems, nor what will happen now that Mitch McConnell is in charge of the Senate and Ryan in the House without a shred of moral / ethical restraint under President Trump and a compliant, "conservative" Supreme Court.

As I write this I am reading that young and older people are out in the streets in NYC and elsewhere protesting the coming Trump presidency. These people have not realized that our “Democracy” is long gone. (1.) We no longer have “rights”. If they persist, they will find that out when Fascist America shows its face. (2.)

I fear the “good “days are gone and the long ugly nights full of bullying, mayhem and pain are now upon us as we near our version of Kristallnacht... Kristallnacht.2016. (3.)

Ron

*I believe that my "shock" is mainly rooted in the near universal failure of mainstream media election forecasts, models and polls to predict the election results.

1. Protests Flare Against Donald Trump’s Election, Michael McLaughlin, Sebastian Murdock, Andy Campbell, The Huffington Post, 9 Nov 2016.
2. Remember these Bill-of-Rights-busting laws remain the law of the land:
(a) the USA PATRIOT Act (Yes, Congress “repealed” the Patriot Act. But it was in name only. Now we must work to revise the Freedom Act.)
(b) the Military Commission Act and
(c) section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. ( Go here for info links for a-c above.)
3. Don't know much about History? The truth is that what will happen to you happened before in Nazi Germany. And from your own US history, your ancestors fought the Robber Barons of old through the grassroots organization called the Chautauqua Movement. The oligarchs who rigged our America today are the descendants of the Robber Barons of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Please go here for more info about our current day The Movement.

"Don't know much about History", "Wonderful World", Sam Cooke, 1960.