Trump's 12-step plan to seize total control
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Samael — 5 months ago(October 06, 2025 05:15 PM)
Trump's 12-step plan to seize total control
by Thom Hartmann
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people. To render us again one people, acting as one nation, should be the object of every man really a patriot.” — Thomas Jefferson
People are baffled. Why are Trump and his Republican lickspittles so intent on gutting our government, destroying our alliances and reputation around the world, and screwing working class people while transferring over $50 trillion to the morbidly rich?
Historian Kevin M. Kruse captured the zeitgeist brilliantly, reflecting widespread public bewilderment when he posted over on BlueSky:
“We’ve had —-ups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a —up. It’s been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn’t be doing anything different.”
So, let’s engage in a simple thought experiment. If you or I were hired by Vladimir Putin, an angry group of billionaires who want to end democracy, or a wealthy serial killer, and our orders were to tear our country apart and make us vulnerable to foreign takeover, what would we do? What steps would we take?
As I mentioned a few days ago, if we follow the Dictator’s Playbook there actually is a simple, 12-step formula to make that happen.
The first step would be to turn Americans from E Pluribus Unum (“Out of Many, One”) into hate-filled warring factions. Turn us against each other. Divide us by race, religion, gender, region, education, income, and whether we live in cities or rural areas.
In Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace (1795), he described the first three strategies that “despotic moralists” use to rip apart the fabric of a society. They were Fac et excusa (“Act now, and make excuses later”), Si fecisti, nega (“If you commit a crime, deny it”), and Divide et impera (“Divide and conquer”). Jefferson perhaps inspired Kant when, in 1787, he wrote, “Divide et impera [is] the reprobated axiom of tyranny…”
When Hitler claimed that Jews, Gypsies, and queer people weren’t “real Germans,” he was invoking that principle. Joe McCarthy tried to divide us by political ideology. David Duke said we should be separated by skin color.
Its most recent invocation was just this week when Trump and Pete Hegseth told our nation’s generals that most Black, Hispanic, and female officers were only in their positions because of their gender or skin color. “Whiskey Pete” was blunt, claiming that Ronald Reagan’s invocation of America’s traditional belief that “our diversity is our strength” was an “insane fallacy.”
Next, we’d want to immiserate as many Americans as possible, creating a huge pool of mostly white men who are pissed off because they’d been left behind economically and feel locked out of the American Dream.
That strategy would include several steps:
・Destroy unions that bind workers together with their employers and raise standards of living.
・Gut programs that lift people out of poverty and into the middle class, including high-quality universal public education, low-cost college, and inexpensive access to healthcare.
・Ship manufacturing overseas to low-wage nations while using incoherent, ever-changing whim-based tariffs to batter the domestic economy.
・Build media operations that demonize “the other,” telling them Blacks, Hispanics, queer people and women are the cause of their troubles.
・Ban books that embrace diversity and teachers who use them.
・Spread hate and conspiracy theories via powerful social media and search engine algorithms that make them seem normal, coarsening the entire culture.
・Throw people off programs offering healthcare, student debt repayment, and housing subsidies.
Third, we’d want to destroy people’s faith in straightforward news. Loudly proclaim that it all has a “leftwing bias” and can’t be trusted, that reporters are elite “enemies of the people,” and attack the media relentlessly.
Fourth, shatter people’s faith in reality itself. Challenge science and expertise. Flood the zone with conspiracy theories. Convince citizens to stop taking commonsense steps to protect themselves and their children including vaccinations, precautions against airborne diseases, or measures to slow climate change. Sow confusion until they no longer know who to believe, and then offer yourself as the only source of truth.
Fifth, deconstruct international alliances that go back centuries by alienating traditional friends and embracing openly hostile foes while tearing up norms of defense, trade, and commerce.
Sixth, fracture citizens’ faith in their elected officials and the government itself. Legalize the practice of morbidly rich people and giant corporations buying legislation and the loyalty of politicians with cash by claiming that “money is speech” and “corporations are persons.” Define opposition -
BOSSMAN — 5 months ago(October 08, 2025 11:24 PM)
Typical fearmongering by a libtard hater. This is another way to get the SJW resistance to pump up their anger
and attack ICE agents with ever more dangerous weapons and methods.
Y'all just tryna get somebody killed. Shame on you, Sambo.
None of these Trump predictions will happen. He doesn't want to be a dictator. He will leave after his term is up.
JD Vance will come in for the next two terms after Trump leaves.
The adults are running the country now and for the forseeable future. Sweet, right? -
bitchsurn — 5 months ago(October 08, 2025 11:50 PM)
You won't be yukking it up after Gay Mike Johnson can no longer suppress the discharge petition and Fat Donnie's pedophile crimes are exposed.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES AND LOCK UP RAPIST PEDOPHILE TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!
