California going RED . A election turning POINT.

California has been "slowly" going
Red , while its been a
blue Democrat's Dream .

The last time California had a Republican Governor it was a disaster . Four Republican governors ago the state has not been "RED" . Okay, when will (1)>>California turn Republican? Well, geographically, a lot of the state already is. The POINT is that the Republicans don't control the state legislature anymore. The Democrats have a soild control . If any of us remember over the last 30 years.   The last time California supported a Republican President was in 1988, which concluded a 35 year streak of voting Republican, only going (D) once, in 1964 when they supported Johnson over the unelectable Goldwater. But, since then, immigration and the growth of Silicon Valley have sufficiently changed the state’s demographics to the point that it is highly unlikely to swing back to voting for Republican Presidents term after term. Yet if California has risen, the fortunes of its Republican Party have fallen to the point of near collapse. The Democrats hold both U.S. Senate seats, seven of eight statewide offices and huge majorities in each house of the state Legislature. In the 1998 governor’s race, Democrat Gray Davis, a dull and rather uninspiring campaigner, crushed his well-funded Republican opponent in the greatest California political landslide in 40 years.  The only true Republican victory in the state after the late 1990s was when Arnold (1.2)>>Schwarzenegger won the open recall election in 2003 and served as governor until 2011.Ever since 2011, it has been complete annihilation for Republicans in California. Gov. Jerry Brown beat his Republican opponents by vast margins in both of his most recent elections and the Republicans were shut out altogether in the 2016 U.S. Senate election, with a Republican not getting into the top two in the jungle primary. As the party looks ahead to a high-stakes governor's race and midterm elections in 2018, it faces a grim reality: A Republican hasn't been elected to statewide office here in more than a decade, and the Democrats hold a powerful supermajority in the state Legislature. The GOP's share of registered voters in California is just 27.3%, its lowest since 1980, and it has yet to field a prominent candidate in the 2018 governor's race. Second, Republicans have to start hammering more on Democrat failures such as the bullet train. (2)>>The bullet train is a prime example of a terrible public works project due to the sheer cost of it all and the lack of progress towards its completion. When this bullet train was introduced in 2008, many Democrat politicians promised its completion by the mid 2020s, costing $35 billion. It is now 2018, the project doesn’t even have a solid foundation yet and it is projected to be completed by the late 2030s with a cost now of over $100 billion.Donald Trump's election provides an opening, Brulte said. California's Democratic leadership is so focused on (3)>>battling the new Trump administration that they are ignoring growing concerns at home, he said. The state's roads, bridges and dams have fallen into disrepair, poverty is on the rise, middle-class families struggle to afford a decent home and massive pension liabilities still loom — all problems that have festered under the watch of Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic-controlled state Legislature, Brulte and other state Republican leaders said.In normal election cycles, California voters are far from the action — catching glimpses of federal candidates when they breeze through to raise money. For the first time in recent memory, the Golden State is central to the Democrats’ crusade to win 24 seats that would grant them the House majority.
John Cox for Governor .
Cox has no record to examine for clues since he’s never been elected to public office, though he has run a number of losing political campaigns for (4)>>Congress in Illinois and one short-lived presidential bid.   Cox aims to be California's next governor, a conservative Republican in a state where Democrats hold every major elective office and dominate the legislature.  Cox was endorsed by President Donald Trump in the June primary. While he isn't trumpeting his Trump connection in the Nov. 6 general, he isn't running away from it either in a state where Trump isn't popular.   Democratic voters who loathe President Donald Trump and the party that empowers him. Cox, as a result, has taken to the periphery with his moderate, business-friendly brand of Republicanism, crafted to broaden his  (5)>>appeal to lower- and middle-class voters worried about the high cost of living in the state.  Cox over the past few months has been refining his campaign message, focused almost exclusively on California’s cost-of-living problems. Republicans see it as a compelling platform that could convince voters to cross party lines in a state Democrats now control.  They note that California is home to more homeless people than any other state in the nation and that a large share — roughly 20 percent — of the state’s population lives in poverty. They say people are fleeing California, an argument backed by a 2018 analysis by the state Legislative Analyst’s Office that found between 2007 and 2016, a million more people moved from California to other states than moved to California from other states.     And though polls suggest that it won’t matter because (6)>>Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom will beat Cox on Nov. (theory) who can say in a state that is overburden by taxes that the a Republican come back can happen .

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

 (1)>>California turn Republican?  The state that spawned the "Reagan Revolution’’ and Richard M. Nixon just experienced a watershed moment — the California Republican Party was officially relegated to third-party status. (1.2)>>Schwarzenegger won.  A decade after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — the last elected GOP statewide official — was lambasted for warning his fellow Republicans that their party was “dying at the box office," the new numbers underscore the collapse of the GOP in California. The ranks of Republican voters have disintegrated by 10 percentage points since 1998, when they made up 35 percent of the voter rolls.Democratic numbers have also declined, though not nearly as dramatically — the party made up 46.8 percent of the voter rolls a decade ago. By contrast, the percentage of “no party preference” voters in the state has more than doubled in the past two decades, the latest data showed.    (2)>>The bullet train is a prime example of a terrible public works project .The gas tax,  and other overreaching items from the state government has pissed off a lot of people. The independents might back a right-winger. The sad thing is - the gas tax is doing more damage to the poor then before. Wait until spring when the spring gas blend takes effect. The prices are going to hurt the poor. The bastards at Sacramento put the gas tax on the same day the new fall blend of gasoline was released making it not seem like the gas tax wasnt a big deal. Fall blends always drop the gas prices down. Crooked leftist.Voting ID laws and stiff penalties can also help out Cali. But to be honest - Cali turning Red might be a lost cause.. I dont mind take a beating here while other right-wingers move to different states. Let those states turn Red and control the nation. Nevada is slowly turning Red again. Many Californians are moving to Nevada. Voting Registration in Nevada and Arizona favors Rep. The Trump tax plan is an interesting example of Trump playing hardball with California. It's clearly designed to punish California, with a change in state tax deductions AND a reduction in mortgage loan interest.If the California politicians had half a brain, they'd try and go to the bargaining table over this. Of course, they're not, they're too busy trying to "find justice" for illegal aliens that shoot California citizens in cold blood.(3)>>battling the new Trump administration . For a variety of reasons, local elections are increasingly a referendum on what’s happening in Washington. As the number of media outlets shrinks, more news coverage is national. Partisanship is increasingly what drives people to the polls, and people vote in House races according to how they feel about whoever is in the White House. Incumbents have less of an advantage than they did in prior decades, and voters care less about experience than they used to. All that — and a historically unpopular president — is making life harder for Republicans this midterm season   (4)>>Congress in Illinois and one short-lived presidential bid. In the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois, Cox used a debate between 11 candidates, including then state Sen.-Barack Obama, to drive home his belief that it isn’t tax cuts that harm the economy, but deficit spending. Later, when he ran for president in the 2008 race, 10 Republicans made the cut for the GOP debate in South Carolina. Cox was not one of them. (5)>>appeal to lower- and middle-class voters worried about the high cost of living in the state. California’s home prices have risen more than 7 percent since last year, to a median of $540,000. Median rents for a two-bedroom are $2,800 per month, far higher than the rest of the country. Californians pay 12 cents more per gallon of gasoline than they did last year. The average price is about $3.40 per gallon, among the highest in the nation.(6)>>Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.  See Newsom on his record .

The Migrant caravan to NO WHERE !

BIG QUESTION are these poor and desperate people  crazy ? There goal is to cross boarders and reach America . While they might be looking for a new life , I have to ponder on their sanity out of their desperate plight. Why is not this huge humanitarian crisis the subject of a (**)>>UN inquire?  In interviews along the journey, migrants have said they are fleeing widespread violence, poverty and corruption. The caravan is unlike previous mass migrations for its unprecedented large numbers and because it largely sprang up spontaneously through word of mouth.  Some of the caravan migrants cry poverty and use children as shields while pleading their case. Others in the caravan have likely learned - from the migrants who preceded them and from open borders advocates encouraging their migration - the playbook of how to exploit the loophole-ridden U.S. immigration laws. (1.1)>>LETS  BE RATIONAL. They are maybe going no-where . For one view point its the wrong way to become a American . You just don't invade another countries borders . They are likely to be rounded up , sent to detention centers .  While to many Central and South Americans , the North is a kind of  (1.1.1 )>>El Hombre Dorado .  (1.2)>>Trump has placed blame on Democrats, threatened to cut aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and urged an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws despite Congress being out of session.He called the caravan an “assault on our country” at a rally Monday night in Houston and said the “Democrats had something to do with” it. Earlier in the day, Trump had pledged to cut off or “substantially” reduce foreign aid to the Northern Triangle countries.  The caravan’s numbers have continued to grow as they walk and hitch rides through hot and 

"we now have pictures of 7,000 people invading the country,
but the truth is this happens every day.
There is an invasion
from south of our border of
people getting into
the country illegally,
and it’s been going
on for decades now,
but it’s very seldom
 seen. Random
photos here, random videos there,
 but nothing like this."
---- Rush Limbuagh 

humid weather, and the United Nations estimated that it currently comprises some 7,200 people, “many of whom intend to continue the march north."   (2)>>However, they were still at least 1,140 miles (1,830 kilometers) from the nearest border crossing — Texas — and the length of their journey could more than double if they go to Tijuana-San Diego, the destination of another caravan earlier this year. That one shrank significantly as it moved through Mexico, and only a tiny fraction — about 200 of the 1,200 in the group — reached the California border.  Even as it moves into Mexico, the illegal caravan has well over 1,000 miles to travel. ( 3) >>There's not enough time to get to the border by the November 6 election. So don't be surprised if trucks, buses and cars "unexpectedly" show up to give them a lift most of the way across Mexico. These columns favor generous immigration and asylum for refugees. But when migration becomes a political weapon to foment border chaos, leaders have no choice other than to step in and protect national security. Members of the caravan have already demonstrated their violent streak during an early stage of their trek, as they approached Mexico. They “forced their way through Guatemala's northwestern border and flooded onto a bridge leading to Mexico,” AFP reported. These migrants, mainly from Honduras, engaged in violent clashes with Mexican riot police as they tried to surge through police lines and cross the bridge into Mexico. Four Mexican police officers were reportedly injured. "Violent entry into the country not only threatens our sovereignty, but also puts the migrants themselves at risk," Mexico’s President Pena Nieto said. "Mexico does not permit and will not permit entry into its territory in an irregular fashion, much less in a violent fashion." While President Trump tweeted a stern warning Thursday to the migrant caravan heading toward the United States– telling the thousands of people currently making their way through Mexico to turn around as U.S. troops are set to move to the southern border.“To those in the Caravan, turnaround, we are not letting people into the United States illegally,” the president tweeted. “Go back to your Country and if you want, apply for citizenship like millions of others are doing!”
Postscript.

Question will they make it ? It's unlikely , like we have seen before with the last migration with images of children in cages . These new immigrants will probably if they do make it in will face being added to the already exhausted welfare system . They will still face poverty . Coming to America illegally is dangerous period. They claim to seek asylum from poverty. The United States recognizes the right of asylum for individuals as specified by international and federal law. A specified number of legally defined refugees who either apply for asylum from inside the U.S. or apply for refugee status from outside the U.S., are admitted annually. Refugees compose about one-tenth of the total annual immigration to the United States, though some large refugee populations are very prominent.[see https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1158 ] The current state of many Latin American countries is the result of mindless American exploitation and political intervention which turned them into ‘Banana Republics’. Take for example, Honduras where the caravan took off. It has virtually been an American colony  since the 1890s with the American banana companies seizing most of its fertile land and rendering  the farmers  destitute. Trump has seized on the caravan as a key talking point heading into the midterm elections. The president has been pointing to the growing group of migrants as justification for his aggressive immigration proposals. It is impossible to predict how many of the migrants will eventually reach the border. In the past, hundreds of migrants have fallen away from caravans as they traveled, either turned back by Mexico, settling there, or setting off on their own.The migrants usually intend to turn themselves in to authorities in the U.S. Once they’re at a designated port of entry or if they are apprehended trying to cross illegally, they can tell officials that they have a fear of persecution in their home country. That triggers an asylum interview.

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(**)>>UN inquire? Answering questions from reporters at the daily press briefing on Monday, UN Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq, said that the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), had been boosting resources on the ground, as the caravan of mainly Honduran refugees and migrants made its way north, across the border between Guatemala and Mexico.Mr. Haq said that UN Secretary-General António Guterres was urging all parties to abide by international law, including the principle of “full respect for countries’ rights to manage their own borders.”According to media reports, what started as a small group of under 200 just a few days ago, has grown considerably. Mr. Haq told journalists that “it is estimated that the caravan comprises some 7,233 persons, many of whom intend to continue the march north.”US President Donald Trump has reportedly responded to the march, by threatening to cut off foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador should the caravan of people fleeing their homeland, attempt to cross into the US illegally.Earlier this week, a UN rights expert urged Member States not to prioritize security concerns over the basic human rights of migrants and refugees.“UNHCR has reinforced its capacity in Southern Mexico, with the deployment of an emergency team drawn from across Mexico’s operations,” said Mr. Haq. “The office now has 32 people on the ground, in the border, Ciudad Hidalgo, and Tapachula.”

He added that these numbers will increase in the coming days, explaining that the agency’s aim was to ensure that travelers are fully informed regarding their rights to asylum, along with providing legal advice and humanitarian assistance.The IOM has reported large numbers of people arriving in Mexico who will likely remain in the country for an “extended period,” Mr. Haq said, explaining that most individuals have crossed irregularly and are gathering in makeshift shelters.(1.1)>>LETS  BE RATIONAL.   A lot of people want to have the American Dream , even American citizens want the same dream. The Reality the American dream has been fading in the last decades for the undocumented its like skating on thin ice According to public opinion polls, a majority of Americans approve of creating ways for undocumented immigrants to become official. A Los Angeles Times poll in 2007, for example, found that 60 percent of registered voters favored a proposal that would allow all, not just student, illegal immigrants (without criminal records) to start on a path to citizenship.   (1.1.1 )>>El Hombre Dorado . The idea of this caravan  had started when  Bartolo Fuentes of the  Freedom and Refoundation Party of Honduras reproduced a poster on his Facebook page inviting people for a migrant march  with the  slogan: “We’re not leaving because we want to, but because we are being expelled by violence and poverty.” The march commenced last week with 160 people  from  the gang-plagued city of San Pedro Sula, deciding  to leave for a safe haven which they identified as the US.   (1)>>Trump has placed blame on Democrats. The president seized on the issues as winners for Republicans attempting to preserve their congressional majority.Trump has since found the perfect opening with a migrant caravan snaking up through Central America toward the U.S. border — and hitting his favorite cable news TV shows. And now the president is talking and tweeting nonstop about the caravan, hoping his strategy will pay off in the final two weeks before Election Day. “Every time you see a Caravan,” he tweeted earlier Monday, “or people illegally coming, or attempting to come, into our Country illegally, think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes to change our pathetic Immigration Laws! Remember the Midterms!”  (2)>>However, they were still at least 1,140 miles (1,830 kilometers) from the nearest border crossing — Texas —    If you’re concerned about the caravan, here are a few facts to make you feel better. At noon on October 21, a USA Today story placed the caravan in the city of Ciudad Hidalgo in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. This is a border city. That is, it is a city on the border between Mexico and Guatemala. That’s a whole country away from the US.( 3) >>There's not enough time to get to the border by the November 6 election. President Donald Trump is increasingly seizing on the caravan . If the caravan is ginning up voter interest ahead of the midterms, 6 November midterm elections. Republican operatives – and Trump himself – have described the caravan as a political windfall, a symbol of a broken system they say is allowing the president to relitigate immigration as an issue that touches on the economy as well as law and order. Trump hit both themes hard during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Trumpian definition of Fascism

Is Donald Trump
beginning  to sound like
a Dictator ?

(1.1 )>>Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal  (1.2)>>Fascism : The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. Was one of the books that tried to place the Obama Democrats on the same line as Nazism . Chucking here folks ! Well this whole subject seems to have a slight twist, while the last two years I have spent listening on the Trump political rallies , something hit me , you know that the word Fascism bemoans the vary name of HITLER and (2)>>Mussolini. Both Hitler and Mussolini had past vary similar rallies . Take for example . Pardon me the rhetorical past  RNC speeches  sounded in 2016 . BUT Is he a Fascist? But in the dark, scary basement of our politics, more basic questions lurk concerning what President Trump’s ascendancy means about America. Is Trump ultimately an aberration or the forerunner of a new, degraded politics involving a racially divisive, ethno-nationalist populism? And is it alarmist to go all the way and call Trump a fascist? Jeffrey Tucker made the argument in Newsweek earlier this summer, noting that Trump’s outlook is simultaneously conservative and totalitarian. Yes, Trump is the conservative Frankenstein monster that was created by the Tea Party , molded with base party line of alt-right wing Republican neocons .. Trump’s movement flourishes without white hoods and burning crosses, without jackboots, gangs of thugs, insignias, patriotic anthems, without secret police or any state power at all. After all, he hasn’t won anything yet.

(5)>>Goldberg's book
was about
Obama & Democrats
but did he miss
something ?

(3)>>His movement doesn’t fit any standard definition of Fascism.  Yet it seems that certain things at the Trump rallies may be defined as Fascism.  When Donald Trump won the election,  he was backed by the maga bucks of the Christian right wing that was waiting during the Obama years to size power .  I knew that this was a sort of right wing coup that did involve some kind of election gerrymandering. While the "inside job"theory  was being systematically overshadowed by  (4)>>Russia meddling theory . (4.2)>>The real problem was with our own RIGGED system . The Republican take over was swift , so  blinded the voters with Donald .  They saw Hillary as a dangerous women . While the propaganda worked, the American voter became the mob  While the real power was invested in a Star Chamber. How this happened ? Were American voters so gullible ?  GOP’s Neo-Antebellum ideology (Christian White Supremacist Fascism) and the majority of Americans now bend to the beliefs of the hypocritical pious.The United States conservative population is indoctrinated with Nationalistic Nativism — worship — worship of made up morals, worship of preacher, worship of (pseudo)patriotism, worship of flag, worship of military, worship of country, worship of party, worship of wealth, worship of power and ultimately worship of Trump — or more precisely, Trump as a vehicle to implement the power of divine doctrine — the Orange Oligarch is working in tandem with and as a Devout Dictator. Consider what American politics would look like if Republicans — against all odds and expectations — were to keep the Senate and House. There might be many explanations for such a result — exceptional economic conditions, bad Democratic strategy.News reports and isolated video clips have made Trump’s rallies seem like bacchanalian proto-fascist white power orgies, fuelled by bald racism, pseudo-Nazi salutes and the imminent threat of violence toward any detractors. Trump’s candidacy was the most dangerous presidential campaign in modern American history. But the reality of a Trump rally, or at least this Trump rally, was about as threatening as a Garth Brooks concert. Its the BIG question . Just how to expose this to the American public? Example , What has happened in (5)>>Hungary since 2010 offers an example—and a blueprint for would-be strongmen. Hungary is a member state of the European Union and a signatory of the European Convention on Human Rights. It has elections and uncensored internet. Yet Hungary is ceasing to be a free country. Donald Trump, however, represents something much more radical. Fascism is one kind of authoritarianism.  Of course, it’s not about racism, nativism, sexism or authoritarianism when it comes to understanding Trump’s base. White racial and gender identity and authoritarianism have long merged with and cross-fertilized each other. Given birth to a new radical Right .



NOTES AND COMMENTS:

 (1.1 )>>Jonah Goldberg's.  Despite the fact that today the term "Fascist" has come to mean "anyone the Left OR RIGHT  doesn't like for any reason", historically, Fascism has actually been a product of the political Left. The "welfare state", so beloved of "Progressives", was originally an invention of Mussolini. As opposed to the explicitly atheist Communism, Fascism itself is a pseudo-religious cult of the state, where the government replaces God as the image of fulfillment. It is through the government that peoples' lives are given meaning, and the government may do anything for the "general good". (1)>>Fascism. fascism is a form of collectivism, with similar goals as socialism and communism. All three areantithetical to capitalism, which is the only social/political/economic system that requires and defends freedom. Collectivist ideologies require the government to use physical force against its own citizens - because all collectivist ideologies demand that the individual be crushed under the weight of the group, at the demands of central planners.One indicator of fascism: The destruction of Freedom of Speech. Hillary Clinton promised to crack the First Amendment during her campaign - by any standard of honesty, she ranks as a premiere Fascist. Trump is of course no better - witness his arbitrary creation of tariffs to please voting blocs by punishing all other Americans with higher prices for everything. By the same token, nearly every Donkey POTUS has acted along Fascist - Collectivist - lines.(2)>>Mussolini. Both Hitler and Mussolini had vary similar rallies . The Anne Frank Centre for Mutual Respect warned of "alarming parallels"  The Nuremberg-style rallies for Trump encourage denunciation of and violence against the media and violation of the Bill of Rights by a howling mob of rabid fanatics, whose obscene gestures resemble the upraised-arm salute of Hitler’s followers. And some even saw a Nazi comparison at a Trump rally later on Saturday in Orlando. Abe Foxman, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League, took issue with Trump asking his supporters to raise their right hands and swear to vote for him.  (3)>>His movement doesn’t fit any standard definition of Fascism.  Some people have gone so far as to suggest that Trump, in whipping up popular resentments and stigmatizing immigrants and Muslims, is exhibiting Fascist tendencies. During the last Democratic debate, Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, said that America must never surrender its values “to the Fascist pleas of billionaires with big mouths.” Slate’s Jamelle Bouie has argued that “Fascist” is the label that best fits Trump, and the word has also cropped up in New Hampshire, where Trump is the front-runner. In a blog post, Jonathan P. Baird, an administrative law judge, noted that the candidate is popular with white supremacists and other hate groups, and wrote, “Trump is no conservative. He is not about conserving what is valuable in America’s laws and heritage. He has crossed enough lines to indicate he is something else altogether.”(4)>>Russia meddling theory . Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota . In support of his theory, he said that Trump previously “on multiple occasions” had expressed acceptance of the intelligence findings of Russian meddling, even while vehemently denying that his own campaign colluded with Putin’s government to influence the ’16 election. Trump himself sought to quell the storm of criticism sparked by his Helsinki comments. Still, he couldn’t bring himself to deliver a denunciation that solely targeted the Russians.Trump said :  "I accept our intelligence community's conclusion that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place," Trump said, before adding: "Could be other people also. A lot of people out there. But there was no collusion." In response, the president brought up a well-rehearsed conspiracy theory implying that after being hacked, the Democratic National Committee refused to help the FBI investigation, and that therefore all evidence implicating Russia in election meddling was shaky. “You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server,” Trump said. “Why didn’t they take the server? Where is the server, I want to know, and what is the server saying?”No one, except Donald Trump, has claimed that the 2016 election was rigged. He made this claim loudly and repeatedly all during the primaries and the campaign, right up to election day. But he claimed it was rigged against HIM.   (4.2)>>The real problem was with our own RIGGED system .   Ruthless gerrymandering has handed Republicans significantly more seats in the House and in state legislatures than their vote share deserves — an advantage that after 2020 could become semipermanent. The Senate, with its small-state bias, looks set to favor the G.O.P. for the foreseeable future, too. Voting restrictions targeting racial minorities and the young, and the evisceration of campaign finance laws, have skewed election and policy outcomes at all levels even further.   (5)>>Goldberg's book  was about Obama & Democrats but did he miss  something ?  Jonah Goldberg’s 2008 book, Liberal Fascism, defined Hitler and Mussolini as merely having more extreme versions of ideas proposed by American liberals like Hillary Clinton. His National Review colleague, Kevin Williamson, has likewise argued that the racist, states’-rights-fixated ideology of the conservative white South is best expressed by the Obama-era Democratic party, rather than the GOP. D’Souza has enthusiastically taken up both these claims. Jonah Goldberg's book was his personal attack against the Democrats , former President Obama . Next to nothing Obama was called a Nazi and a Marxist at the same time, while the "Fascist"definition is now being applied to Donald Trump .(5)>>Hungary .  Hungary’s Viktor Orban rewrote the Constitution withthe goal of “making Hungary great again” —a line that sounded great to someone.“Did you ever hear this before? ‘Make America great again.’Populist movements and governments are a symptom of the West’s crisis, not a cause. In Europe, support for supposedly undemocratic populist politicians and parties is driven by the actually undemocratic policies of the European elite, such as one nation setting immigration policy for the entire continent.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday said that diplomatic relations with the U.S. could improve after President-elect Donald Trump takes office, Reuters reported. In a phone conversation Trump told Orbán “that he regards Hungary highly” and then invited him to Washington, the Hungarian prime minister said.

American dangerous foreign policy .

A dangerous foreign policy.

When I started writing this , it went through several revisions . It was supposed to be about the nations foreign policy .  For the last few weeks there have been alarming incidents between Russia and America not seen since the cold war era. While all this has been buried under the dirt of the Bret Kavanaugh fiasco. Which is the biggest national distraction to the reality of our American situation .  US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley announced she would resign sent a wave of speculation . One of them is that she was the the author of an anonymous anti-Trump op-ed, is a senior official in the Trump administration. While that might be worthy of a investigation . Haley , sorry to say this she was nothing more than a parrot doing the bidding , following the John Bolton doctrine of hard line policy towards other nations that would deserve better diplomatic solutions than waging war , preemptive strikes . Endless costly wars , I am sure many Americans agree with me that its time to stop this dangerous foreign policy pursuit. It’s clear that many voters gave up When they voted in 2016, they didn’t care for the international institutions the U.S. had so carefully constructed after World War II: nato; the United Nations; the World Bank. They didn’t care for their country to protect the liberal world order, to lead the “Free World.” Voters on the left and the right showed their readiness for a policy turn inwards. They wanted a country focused on domestic policies. Yet that too our nation is running behind.In January 2017, American foreign policy was, if not in crisis, in big trouble. Strong forces were putting stress on the old global political order: the rise of China to a power with more than half the productive capacity of the United States (and defense spending to match); the partial recovery of a resentful Russia under a skilled leader. I completely realized that my country is in trouble . I think what Franklin Graham said last year that“Our country is in trouble, and I don’t have a whole lot of faith in the political parties,” said in a video posted on his Facebook page .  While Graham focus was the domestic national issues “Shootings, riots and protests now claim the headlines about America, and that’s heartbreaking,” he said. “We are in desperate need of Divine intervention. We need healing. Prayer is what can make a difference in America.” My concern is our nation's foregoing  foreign  policy , the way the United States has eroded relations with Russia and China  . The Trump Administration has been the most "hostile" American regime in our nations history,  if you compare with Bush , Obama , our nation is at tripping point for a disaster on the international front . You hope that President Trump would have move forward regardless of the Russia fiasco to restore diplomatic relations with Russia , or changing the old guards views of Syria , the Palestinian cause . First of all backing out of the Iran deal.  One of the dangerous consequences of violating the Iran deal is a loss of credibility for the US, say critics of Donald Trump’s decision including former president Barack Obama. Iran and all other parties have respected the deal’s terms, they point out, making the US look like an unreliable international partner. On America's part in pulling out of the treaty has created a great rift with our allies , its troubling that diplomacy was thrown out for a war rhetoric . Most astounding  is that both political parties [ Democrats and Republicans ]  for the turn against Russia by rank-and-file .Still, the belligerent rhetoric To bluster about Russian actions being an “act of war” is to suggest that the U.S. may actually have to go to war with Russia, or risk appearing too weak to defend its own sovereignty.  The "threats" this week, During an Oct. 2 press briefing, the U.S. permanent representative to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison, raised eyebrows with comments that suggested the United States is preparing to “take out” Russian missiles deployed in violation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. While vary little was said about this on our American TV news medias , "referencing" the 1987 treaty that both President Obama and President trump pulled out , but "falsely" accusing Russia of backing out of this treaty , is mind boggling .  While our nation is consumed by Russo-phobia. Our nation seems to be losing a foothold in global relations with other nations .  Yet with the Beltway in hysteria over hacking of the DNC and John Podesta emails, and the Russophobia raging in Washington, we appear to be paralyzed when it comes to engaging with Russia. China and Russia are setting economic partnerships with other nations , conducting joint military exercises that are a bit alarming. America seems to have fallen behind in conducting a peaceable dialog with other superpowers , at the UN level Niki Haley our US ambassador  Even so, Haley's rhetoric ruffled feathers and could have had international consequences .  In my nearly 40 years I have never seen our nation take such unrealistic approach with other nations . Making "threats" , pulling out of international treaties is endangering American global interests .  This is what America has become. We need to take a long look in the mirror, because we are in an advanced state of decline. Hopefully the American people will start to wake up, because time to turn things around is quickly running out.