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What does Donald Trump talk about? He talks about himself, his wanting to become an autocrat and not much about anything else of consequence to the voting public.
George Washington could have become an autocrat, but he declined the title of king of the new republic. He declined because that was not what he helped lead America to become. The Founding Fathers created a document called the Constitution to preserve the rights of citizens. They fought Great Britain for the rights to self-govern. They knew that their only choices were to fight, acquiesce to or flee from autocracy and tyranny.
So many deluded people believing in a wannabe autocrat is akin to mass hysteria.
Can we survive our worst impulses, or will we find ourselves living under the tyranny of the autocrat in power?
Stuart Shimazu
Kapahulu
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