Michael Lucas Monterey: Creative Evolutionary

The current preprint copy of this Op-Ed piece is a report on the legal facts, realities, and truths of our constitutional rule of law that make Trump & Trumpi accomplices guilty of insurrection, treason, and other capital crimes. Here’s the link to a PDF copy > TRUMP v. the USA

Here’s a copy of the first page:

TRUMP et al v. the USA et al :: Copyright © 2024 Michael Lucas Monterey. Creative Commons Licensing protocols apply.

In my opinion, no politician can make America great again. We all need to make it greater. Now, holding Donald J. Trump and his accomplices responsible for insurrection, treason, and their other crimes will help.

Yet, I agree with some of what Trump and his supporters say about corruption of government here. I go further. Like researchers at Princeton and Northwestern (universities),^[1] I see no democratic republic here. I see a plutocratic oligarchy, run by and for the super-rich, the ultra-rich, and their corporations. I think our Constitution needs updating,^[2] but I can’t agree that one professional fraudster (who wants to be like Putin, or Xi or Kim or Hitler) can or would “fix” America.

The signers of our Declaration of Independence agree with me, that “…when a long train of abuses and usurpations…” threaten us with absolute tyranny, “…it is [our] right…[our] duty” to end our subjection to corrupted government “…to provide new Guards for [our] future security.” Still, they knew that most of us will suffer tolerable evils, rather than relieve ourselves by radically changing our habits and lives.^[3] Why? We prefer suffering a devil we know, to taking a chance on one who may be worse.

INSURRECTION OR TREASON?

 I also agree with Winston Churchill, “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”^[4]

Despite the defects—of our Constitution, governments, and devils—most of us don’t suffer enough to crave an extremely radical change of our ways or governance (etc.). We also want the rule of law to be as effective as possible. So, we should protect our constitutional rule of law. That requires holding government officials, judges, and other law officers responsible to protect it and us. They should see Trump’s War on Truth for what it is, a war against the law, our Constitution, good government, our security, peace, and liberty. That makes it a treasonous conspiracy.

We can equate the War on Truth with Putin’s global InfoWar, and psychological warfare in general. You disagree? Watch documentaries on the dictators’ playbook, and do more reading.^[5] Future dictators use a game plan, starting with InfoWar. The rest of the strategy is simple, making it a useful check list.

THE DICTATORS’ PLAYBOOK
“Learning from the experience of history requires recognizing the patterns of dictatorships—the
Strongman’s Playbook…
A. Extreme nationalism that calls for restoring a country’s past glory or greatness. +1
B. Placing blame on a single group…an ethnic or religious minority, or foreign threat. +2
C. Warning of an emergency, often nonexistent, or responding to severe economic distress… +3
D. Calls for “law and order” and eliminating corruption. +4

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