Formerly the ‘united states’ under attack
For more than 200 years, a generous sense of civic decency and fairness has allowed the delicate state of democracy to flourish in America. Four centuries ago, Don Quixote was warned that certain men who have tasted power would rather gnaw off their own right hand than give up that power.
Today, dictators hate the dangerous example of a real democracy because it’s a direct threat to their power. Tyrants never gracefully yield their power to anyone. They guard their supremacy by sabotaging both free speech and a free press while sowing fear and inciting suspicions and distrust. Amid their torrent of lies, dictators never support fair elections. But this year, several foreign dictators relish a golden opportunity for exporting their toxic oppression to the formerly united states of America .
Dictators are helping to stoke American factions into lethal hatreds that convert neighbors, friends and even siblings into foes to further split the country and shatter what’s left of democracy. Cunning outlaws, armed with social media disinformation from both here and abroad, race to discredit America’s current election and wreck our republic.
They intend that the suppression of voter rights will derail the election and trigger an American coup, bringing full-throated dictatorship to our once great land. Tragically, the passion of foreign tyrants for destroying democracy is being aided by one of their own kind, an unmasked bandit whose selfish desires now command a boot-licking, greed-obsessed political party to transform America’s free citizens into serfs.
Dave Lambert
Schenectady