I note with interest that no political, religious, economic or social organization was able to prevent the rapid deployment of armed and deadly shock troops throughout major American cities: hastily hired thugs that are only too keen to shred the Constitution and trample on the rights of citizens and human beings on the orders of their shameless, thoroughly unhinged and power-mad dictator.

Just as in the past, a democratically elected despot has seized the machinery of government in order to twist its various functions according to his crazed ambition, which seemingly knows no bounds. Whereas in a true democracy leaders use the power of their office to advance goals in line with the general good, perhaps only mildly inconveniencing one or another group when no other alternative is available, in an autocratic regime all decisions are ultimately made by and for the autocrat, often on whim, and without any consideration for the welfare of the population served.

That is what we are witnessing today in the streets of this country. We are witnessing the consolidation of unchecked power in the hands of an unelected minority; an unholy alliance of freelance overlords who sailed in under the radar when the rest of the country was too busy fretting over various aspects of the private lives of others instead of keeping a watchful eye on the affairs of state. In a culture obsessed with image and bluster, it was relatively easy for Republicans to install their puppet dictator and ram their blatantly authoritarian, anti-democratic agenda through: they simply lied better than their opponents, many of whom probably never considered that they might some day share a chamber with the disgraced, looming hulk of a once legitimate political party completely overrun with fulsome demagogues and feckless boot lickers.