“Democracy dies in darkness” is a quote pompously colonised by The Washington Post which now hangs like a rotting albatross corpse around its neck as owner Jeff Bezos – along with other notable tech billionaires - swiftly pivot away from previous thin moral stances, to pre-obey their chosen overlord and bend the knee to Donald Trump.
Here is the text of a letter of mine published last
week in Scottish newspaper The National –
Dear Editor,
Project 2025 attracted focus and panic prior to the
November US elections and its negative implications for ordinary Americans.
What is now evident from the foreign funding into
Trump org during his last stint in the WH, the ongoing grift, the
self-interested placements of billionaires in the transition team, is that
Trump is putting the US up for sale in the same way Putin did with Russia.
IN Russia’s case the unwritten devils’ bargain that
those oligarchs who made eye-watering wealth out of cashing in on the resources
of their motherland and selling out its people, was that they were forever
beholden to Putin.
And yes, it begins with getting the turkeys to vote
for Christmas. Something we are trained to in the UK (Brexit!). Once that is
achieved the rest is easy.
Trump is entirely comfortable with this feudal system
and that, not Project 2025, is his blueprint.
It’s a strategy perfected by Putin.
Having got away with an attempted coup – Trump 0.2 has
no breaks.
SO, buckle up.
(11th December 2024)
*
In summary, Trump is turning the US into an Oligarchy.
It’s not just mad man Musk who has been bending the knee to rapist-elect Trump
but Zuckerberg and Bezos etc. come to heel like trained bitches offered the
canine equivalent of all their Christmases in one snarf.
As leaders (I use the term loosely) around the world
work out just how they are going to placate the toddler-man this time or – to
use the 1930s term - appease him, it’s like we are all suffering extreme
collective amnesia.
So far Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sunda Pachai,
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jeff Bezos of Amazon have all kissed the ring
without apparent shame or discomfort or sense of their own titanic cowardice.
Here is MSNBC laying it out.
SO – Democracy doesn’t just die in darkness it can die
out in the open. It can be suffocated in the full daylight; in the glare of traditional
and social media and with all of us looking on.
Merry Christmas.
That will be the last post until sometime in January.