Each person on this post has a “talent set” that is singular
and individual. As such we see/perceive situations from varying viewpoints all
of which are valid. So to be clear I do
not denigrate any viewpoint yet offer my perspective in hopes of having differing
viewpoints considered. I am a
professional observer, which is one of my talent sets. I am a speed reader, something I got from my
father who possessed a photographic memory.
I did not get all of his talent but I can read faster than anyone I know, retain
most of what I read, literally “see” it in my mind and am able to correlate
data points of similarity from a lot of data. I use this
semi-photographic ability in my sales career as I evaluate the behavior of
people not to manipulate them but to understand motivation and provide to them solutions
quickly resulting in my being a top Realtor with 100% of my business coming from referrals,
no marketing, no advertising, no cold calls.
All because of superior information, human insight and personal service which I
also bring to my wellness company Your Holistic Life (Like I need another job,
lol).
I ramble about this because I approach evaluating our
elected leader’s actions exactly the same way.
I am not really swayed by their words but more by their repeated actions
and resulting data points. Not allowing or heavily
weighing verbal influence has its advantages; you get a clearer picture of true
intent. So the action of this
administration pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord is logical given the
data points from day one of taking office.
This administration is building its influence on being contrary, plain and
simple. Data points: Rick Perry as secretary
of Energy, Betsy Devos as Secretary of Education, Jeff Sessions as Attorney
General and Ben Carson as head of HUD. There
is no discussion on the validity of these appointments; they are all contrary
to the appointed rolls of advancing each of these agencies positively for the
majority of Americans and American Values.
They are laughable if they weren’t so tragic in their outcome.
Which brings me to Steve Bannon; this administrations chief architect. His intent is clear, he is a Leninist meaning
that by his own words and actions: “Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the
state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and
destroy all of today’s establishment.” Well that's real American values. To
do so he employs division and contrary actions to destabilize multiple points of authority centralizing power and creating division so other actions can be made while people are distracted
thereby manipulating the outcome via disinformation.
This is classic playbook from Hitler’s Mein Kempt.
To quote an insightful recent article from October 29, 2016,
Daily Kos and Tricia Sohl, “Coming from a Darwinian Survival of the Fittest
mode, Hitler promoted his agenda through a propaganda approach aimed at the
masses, who are “like a toy car set in motion by a superior intellect that
maintains momentum”. He asserted a leader
needed to capture the heart and lift the “spirit” of the masses with ruthless
and fanatical concentration on achieving one sided goals” geared to the level
of least intelligence, aimed at feelings, not reason, at the extremes, not in
betweens, using big lies, not small, as the masses more easily believe big lies
as they themselves couldn’t conceive of anyone telling lies so big.”
The article goes on to state, “The Art of Propaganda
described by Hitler suggested promoting simple noble goals with simple
statements that say a lot (Make America Great Again) without diluting the
message with objective reasoning as that breeds uncertainty in the masses. It further suggested Labeling and defiling
the opposition “other” with simple one-sided concepts (Lying Crooked
Hillary). He emphasized repetitive
perseverance “to excite the masses to a state of intoxication” (Build a
wall). He recommended making step by
step partial goals as the masses are unable to keep focused on longer
goals. He observed how control of the
press can serve to push public option, catering to the masses lowest instincts…
ultimately leading to coup d’état and the exercise of absolute top down
authority.”
I observe these tactics are being used daily on the American
People and from my observation, pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord has one
purpose, to destabilize our European alliances one slight at a time. It takes Trolling to an international level
and has nothing to do with the reason’s President Trump stated that he pulled
out because of the lack of enforcement for other nations or that it “disadvantaged
America as it would cost us a fortune.”
That is a smokescreen and manipulation at the highest level and speaks
more toward isolating America, rejecting globalism and cooperation between countries. Is all about who “wins” and "loses", there is
no shared prosperity with this world view.
The biggest threat I see is the use of Prevarication (lying)
to affect a desired outcome designed to weaken Democratic ideals which our elected officials are entrusted to uphold. I wrote
about this in a previous blog post that prevarication from the highest levels
of our government normalize disinformation, distrust and threaten the basis of
the Democratic process. Manipulation,
Control, Dictatorship, promoting Fascist principles and Prevarication all add
up to the destruction of the promise of American Freedom and the messy process of Democratic
rule. Nothing is perfect, not even Democracy, but the
promise and intent of our founding fathers is at least Nobel.
