Ominous Patterns
I
have written a 400 page book: "Shanghai Before and After the Fall-Caught
Between Two Chairs". The book is about
my life in the Shanghai Jewish Ghetto in the 1940's. The book will be published by IUniverse next
summer.
In
part this book is an autobiography. But
it is really much, much more. It is an
analysis of the different historical events which brought about World War II
and with it various dictatorships.
I
have done something which I believe no other author of an autobiography has
ever done before. I have analyzed the
patterns which lead potential leaders or revolutionaries to become dictators or
totalitarians and how these revolutionaries gained power without any previous
political experience. I have gone even
one step further by showing what happens once they are in power and eventually
their power is ended by external forces.
These
observations are based on the fact that I have grown up in China because of a ruthless dictator who
persecuted my parents and millions of other Jews in Germany, namely Adolf Hitler.
Then,
once World War II ended, another dictator ruled China with an iron fist - Mao Zedong.
I
have also analyzed a number of other dictatorships.
Here,
without going into much detail, as I do in the book, is a list of patterns
which brings revolutionaries into power.
Frustration
by the people with the status quo of their government's rule.
Usually
there is high unemployment, as well as high inflation, followed by a breakdown
of the prevalent culture.
The
revolutionaries implore the people to trust them and their rule.
They
claim, without being specific, to know what to do to rescue the country from
the abyss.
They
promise to abrogate previous agreements and contracts.
The
State takes control over the individual's lives and promises jobs to the unemployed.
These
dictators engage in major construction projects, largely statutes or monuments to
their own glory.
They
engage in a big build up of the military and subsequently once built up engage
in foreign wars.
They
silence or even remove the opposition by force.
They
promise a better life to the masses.
They
censor the press and largely silence the press.
They
make some minority group the scapegoat for the countries' problems.
Once
they have identified such a minority they persecute many of its members, imprison
or make them disappear altogether and confiscate their wealth and assets to pay
for the expenses of the construction and the build up of the military and the
cost of the wars they have now engaged in.
In
the end, the countries which they rule pay a high price for listening to these
knights on a white horse in shining armor.
Look
at what happened to the lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao-Zedong, Saddam
Hussein of Iraq, Juan Peron, Augosto Pinochet, Marshall Tito, Joseph Stalin
just to name a few and how their lives ended!
Hitler's
Germany got decimated by the
Allies and Hitler himself, never willing to listen to his generals as well as
the generals being afraid to voice their opinions, at the end committed suicide
in a bunker in Northwest Berlin, when Soviet troops entered Berlin!
Benito
Mussolini tried to flee to Switzerland
when the American troops under General George S. Patton and the British troops
under Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery landed in Sicily.
Mussolini was captured by partisans, shot and his corpse was
subsequently hung upside down from the roof of a Gas Station.
Mao-Zedong
killed thousands of bureaucrats who had worked for the previous Kuomintang
government of Chiang Kai-shek, before the fall of China. While still under communist party rule,
millions of Chinese starved but had no choice but to accept their fate until Deng Xiaoping (1978–1992),
put down the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and opened China to new far-reaching
market-economy reforms. Mao himself was
reviled and fell into disrepute by the party.
Saddam
Hussein ruled Iraq with an
iron fist but was overthrown by the United States
forces when they invaded Iraq
in 2003. He was subsequently captured in
December of 2003 and sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of thousands
of Iraqis.
I am
not claiming that Pinocchio (The Donald) will do all of the things mentioned
above, but I do fear that the man is dangerous like hell!!!
Let
me tell you what I see in him that might have escaped you.
A
large part of our population is frustrated with our government's inability to
stop American manufacturers from shipping their jobs overseas where the cost of
labor is infinitely cheaper than here at home.
Do
you know how the Donald wants to bring back the jobs? He wants to lower the minimum wage back to
$7.25!!! You heard right!!! He wants to bring the minimum wage back to
$7.25. Just think of what it would do to
his empire if he got to lower the minimum wage again!
President
Obama has brought the number of unemployed down quite substantially from what
it was but there are still a large number of people who no longer qualify for
unemployment benefits and therefore fall between the cracks. They are still unemployed and struggling to
pay their bills.
Conventional
jobs have given way to computers and robots.
But
Donald still promises the people that he can fix the system, while he knows
absolutely nothing about politics. He
forgets that, if elected to be President, he will still have to deal with
Congress and the Senate who is very much opposed to him as they were to
President Obama because of the Congress trying to act as if the members of
Congress were the Commanders in Chief.
Instead of cooperating with the President, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner
have done everything they could possibly think of to undermine the President.
Donald
talks big, as if he were in the gutter or even the sewer, but when it comes to specifics
he doesn't explain how he will accomplish all his goals. "Just trust" him he says.
He
promises to abrogate the Iran Nuclear Deal and Obamacare. He forgets that it took two years to
negotiate the Nuclear Deal and that Iran was more or less in the
driver's seat. America did not give anything to Iran which
wasn't theirs to begin with. The money
which Iran
got was its own money which was frozen in American Banks!
And Obamacare
has helped over 12 million people so far to get health insurance coverage. Maybe the program needs to be tweaked a
little bit, but it should not be torn to shreds.
He
wants to build a 10 foot wall on the border of Mexico
and the United States and Mexico
will pay for it. Happy Dreaming, Donald!
He
wants to rebuild the Military. It was
Congress that refused to pay for a bigger Military.
When
Meagan Kelly was scheduled to interview Donald in a Fox Debate he refused to
attend, because she "didn't treat him nicely". What about how he treated her?
She
quoted him in his own words in the first debate when he shot back at her.
According
to Pinocchio it is the illegal Immigrants from Mexico which are responsible for
all of our ills, not Congress!
Gimme
a break!
So
he will round up 11 million illegal immigrants.
What happens to the Statue of Liberty?
Do we keep its torch burning?
In
many ways he reminds me of a snake oil salesman.
But
the people who believe in him trust him.
That's what they want to hear.
God help us.
