Dwain Northey (Gen X)

I have always been taught, whether it be through the military or martial arts even basic business training that one alone can be easily broken but many together are far less likely to break.

Some people have a distorted view of strength and/or power. I am talking about those that think that they alone can accomplish any task. That is one level of narcissistic confidence. Then there are those that don’t need help or assistance in accomplishing things but only they can do those things, there is no other person that can do what they do. That may be true in some artistic endeavors, there wasn’t another that, at the time, could do the things on a guitar that Eddie VanHalen could do but that was primarily because no other guitarist had thought of doing the things he introduced into the genre.

I am not talking about specialized talents that I have no doubt that some exceptional individuals possess. I am in this instance referring to the Orange Menace that is trying again to ascend to the Presidency. In recent campaign events the wannabe and former commander in chief has said that we are heading for WWIII and only he can keep us from going over that cliff. “I alone can keep us out of another world war, I can easily do it… no one else can.” This is the same guy that praises Putin, Kim Jun Un, Victor Orban, Xi Jinping, “These are very STRONG leaders, their people know that they are in charge and don’t question it.” Donald wants the United States to be under Authoritarian rule with him has supreme leader. The Republicans 2025 project has outline how they want to bring our government all under the Executive branch and all functions of government under the unitary executive.

I guess that none of the people that want one man, one rule has looked at how that has turned out in the past. We put Sadam Husain in power in Iraq, he made himself the Unitary Executive, the country had ‘elections’ but those were rigged to keep Sadam in power. Then one day he pushed too far and was taken down for his actions. Putin has made himself leader, pretty much, for life by rigging ‘elections’ or outright assassinating the opposition. Fidel Castro made himself leader and destroyed Cuba because he alone knew what was best, even to the point of telling farmers what could grow, not listening to the same farmers that told him that those particular crops would not grow. Some of these governments lasted for a while but in the not-so-distant past most Authoritarian leaders led their countries to war and ruin.

Donald sees the trapping of power, the palaces, the riches that can be absconded from the people. He wants people to adore him and if they don’t, he wants them to fear him. Donny Dumb Ass does not or know how to lead or govern and has no intention of doing that, he, like the current Trumpublican Party want to Rule. He has never believed, ‘Of many one’, his entire existence has proved that from hiring people to do a job then refusing to pay them, starting charities, and stealing from them. This is what we can look forward to if Donald were to regain the Presidency.

The preamble to the constitution says, “We the People”, it does not put into power a Unitary Executive. Our constitution lays out 3 branches of government, legislative, executive, and judicial as checks and balance against one another. This system, as flawed as it has been. has lasted for nearly 250 years and has proven ‘better’ than other systems. Let’s continue to show Strength and Power as “WE” and not devolve into “ME”. Of Many One… has always worked because when one falls there are many to continue. If it is only One and that One falls the whole system falls.

Thanks for putting up with another rambling rant.