Thursday, November 30, 2023

A Trump Dictatorship is Inevitable?

 Personally I would like to thank Robert Kagen for his editorial in the Washington Post.  I removed my rose-colored glasses a month ago, and America's reality is brutal.  Mr. Kagen's opinion is well within the scope of reason for discerning citizens.  His concept is that Trump will win in 2024.  This is not new, and this GOP championed-perspective has been the news since the January 6th debacle.  He seems to think that the country moving on to greener pastures, or rather less dire and depressing news, is naive.  We should plan on Trump becoming America's first authoritarian dictator duly elected by the people.  Is it possible that over half the population wants to eradicate freedom and rule by the people, and submit to a military-enforced police state?  That is a grim prospect, and I can't imagine America as a whole agrees.  We have the right to choose our leadership and our potential future.  If you do chose Trump, then the fall of the world's pinnacle of freedom is your fault.  Hitler courted his populace and was successful.  Many did, but there comes a time when adults have to make the decisions.  Suggesting the Trump scenario is the irrevocable future of America is lazy.  It makes news.  It is the news.  It has been the news, and we need to move on.  Rehashing the severity of the fall of the free world isn't news.  It is fodder.  It is easy, and it is cheap.  Trying to solve America's real problems should be the agenda.  Humbly I ask Mr. Kagen to address these issues.  They are:  Campaign Finance Reform, Immigration, Education, Health Care, Big Pharma, and Crime.  The list is long, significant, and challenging.  For America to sustain and survive, these problems must be solved.  If we are not smart enough, or worse too lazy and irresponsible to address these issues, then these folks can hash it out in the latest online video game.  It is fantasy, but America has been in Fantasyland, since Trump became President.  He spun our current human existence into an insignificant blip on the radar of pop culture.  If we do not save the Earth now, our opportunities are limited.  Strife, violence, and war may be the unfolding agenda.  Is this to what humankind has devolved?  We forsake heterosexual love?  We participate in racism and discrimination?  We revel in violence, murder, and torture?  I suggest a menu of bliss for the restaurant of America.   Corporate America will have to cease and desist their current agenda of environmental sacrilege.  This includes the R J Corman Railroad Group.  Superseding Wabtech, GE, Progress Rail, Locotrol, and Siemens, this new collector of short line railroads and player in rail unknowingly has entered the arena of human sadism.  Since the advent of AC traction, the rail lobby has hidden the dire effects of radiation from low frequency alternating current.  Radiation may not be the right term.  Tesla had plans to transmit alternating current through the air, but the public utilities  nixed that.  How monetarily could they collect fees from free power beamed through the air?  His idea proved it was possible.  When you try to harness the power of lower frequencies of alternating current, inevitably it will run awry.  Perhaps on a small scale through normal high voltage power lines this energy could be contained.  Producing thousands of volts to create rotating electromagnetic fields to pull hundreds of thousands of tons of freight?  Who could not see the danger in this prospect?  The sheer amount of low frequency alternating current needed to complete such a task would power a city, but today's modern diesel/electric locomotives can do just that.  They are ambulant, turbo-charged, sixteen cylinder, four stroke, diesel prime movers which don't turn axles.  Their task only is to spin a generator or alternator which produces electricity to power AC traction motors,  the axles of the bogies.  This electromagnetic energy, which correlates to the frequency of the AC, rotates a stator and pulls the rotor (the axle) with enough force to pull thousands of tons of freight. Multiply that by 30,000, and we are lucky to be able to walk on the bare ground without getting shocked.  This electricity is in our air, in our earth, and consequently in our minds and bodies.  If you wonder why the world has gone crazy, add 5G cell towers, the military's microwave defense systems, and ISR surveillance satellites in space.  The Earth is cooking.  Even if R J Corman is rebuilding older direct current locomotives like the SD-40, the knock and vibration of the 645 two stroke engine is enough to chatter the teeth out of your grandma's head.  A shiny paint job, aggressive pubic relations, and favorable quarterly numbers will not stop the adverse effects of a community living in a rail yard.  If Mr. Kagen wants to solve a human problems, then I suggest he try to orchestrate the logistics of pollution and radiation from the commercial airlines, freight rail, and the United States military.  If you want to know why people feel bad, then stage a diesel and microwave absent week.  The calm and serenity of such an anachronistic event could provide the bliss I recommend.  Sadomasochism is getting old.