In the twentieth century, we saw the US save Europe from fascism, even though America dragged its heels before entering World War Two. FDR had to match wits with isolationist pacifists who refused to rein in Hitler, Mussolini, and their fascist collaborators. There was even a fascist movement in the US then too, complete with German spies and their American supporters. America now harks back to that fascist past as Donald Jackass Trump and his fascist minions makes this country and the world seem like 1930s all over again! (Is that why the jackass chose to have a rally in MSG? American Nazis had one there before World War Two.)
But the tables have really turned, haven’t they? We’re speedily slipping down those slime-covered walls into that cesspool of fascism now created by us. Will Europe save us as we saved them? Maybe not. They might have to worry about their own plights, sandwiched betwe4n Putin on their east and Trump on their west, the two fascist buddies brandishing all their nukes. Trump, like Franco and Mussolini with Hitler, will just become Putin’s lackey. The Russian president-for-life (Trump’s goal in the US, of course) has plenty of experience handling Narcissus le Grand: Flatter Trump and he’ll become Putin’s lap dog.
America’s wannabe fuehrer was and is putty in the Russian autocrat’s hands. We witnessed that in Trump’s first term. If he wins another one, the carte blanche received from the fascist SCOTUS judges will allow him to become a real and unconstrained pal of both Putin and Xi. We’ll have a new Axis like before World War Two. An unstoppable one this time? Perhaps. But it might be all up to Europe this time to stop it!
NATO needs the US even though the jackass incorrectly claims that the US doesn’t need NATO. The first thing that America’s Il Duce reincarnate will do is end America’s participation in NATO because that will make Putin his best buddy. Its not clear that a weakened NATO, i.e. just the countries in Europe, can stand up to Putin’s fascism in the east and Trump’s in the west. And you can bet that Trump will be rattling the nuclear sword right along with his Russian pal.
Science fiction? I write it, among other things…like this blog. Long ago I learned that science fiction can become science fact. Sci-fi is where what-ifs and valuable warnings should wise up those who seem to be incapable of understanding the darkness of human nature and admire those idiots who pretend to be strong and powerful but are only weak and mentally deranged fascists. I say to them: Ignore my warnings at your own peril!
This US presidential election is an existential one for our democracy. The latter has given you a voice to use for good, not evil. Use that voice America has given you for good and vote for Kamala Harris, not that loser, Donald Jackass Trump, who has already shown in spades that he’s unfit to be US president!