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A blog to give a voice to our concern about the continued erosion of our democratic processes not only within the House of Commons and within our electoral system but also throughout our society. Here you will find articles about the current problems within our parliamentary democracy, about actions both good and bad by our elected representatives, about possible solutions, opinions and debate about the state of democracy in Canada, and about our roles/responsibilities as democratic citizens. We invite your thoughtful and polite comments upon our posts and ask those who wish to post longer articles or share ideas on this subject to submit them for inclusion as a guest post.
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“Earlier in his career the world had watched him
with amusement, that people refused to take him seriously, and as one
action after another met with amazing success, this amusement was
transformed into incredulousness. It was inconceivable that such a
thing could actually happen in our modern civilization. A madman had
become the leader. Having classified him in this way you might think
that all we need to do is to eliminate the madman from the scene of
activities, replace him with a sane individual, and the world will
again return to a normal and peaceful state of affairs. ….......
Focusing on the individual’s madness begs the
question as to the sanity of society that created him as its
spokesman and leader, that a reciprocal relationship exists between
the leader and the people who spawned him. Removing such a leader is
simply removing the overt manifestation of the disease. Focusing on
the madman does not take us very far in understanding those who
support him. “
The above is not a Psychological Analysis of Donald Trump
but from a World War II report, “A
Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler,” for the Office of
Strategic Services of the United States Government as brought to my
attention by a long dissection of the American mindset by
blogger Canadian Dimension
I will not pretend to be a great scholar or for that
matter consumed with our southern neighbors current cluster fk but
one cannot help but be concerned with where the country just south of
us is headed given our close proximity both physical and
economically. I can only say that from what news reports that
highlight Trumps past and present unrestrained verbiage the above
clip from an article about a former dictator who
started in an elected official and in a short time took over
government and eliminated any who opposed him that the parallels are
scary..
Given the constant removal of qualified individuals from
influential government positions to be replaced with Trump supporters
the parallels are so obvious and troubling that the American
electorate had best be praying that this smooth talking self
promoting liar is removed from power in short order. I wish the
American people the best of luck getting him to actually hand over
the reigns of power and not further destroy what little democracy
left in their country by fighting the results in the courts for
months and possibly years to come.
Enough said......
