A dictator?
I read with great dismay the letter titled “The prospect of a dictator” which appeared in the Oct. 5 edition. Dismayed because it is hard to believe that any one is willing to spew this kind of garbage in a public forum. It begins by saying that on Day One of Trump’s reelection, he will declare himself a dictator.
Then:
- As dictator he will immediately “declare the U.S. Constitution suspended or abolished or null and void from this moment on.”
- He will not be sworn in since there is no longer a Constitution
- He declares himself dictator for life
- He abolishes the Supreme Court, the Congress, the FBI, all the other Federal agencies, bureaus, etc.
- He orders the military to do his bidding, to protect him, to keep out of federal property employees of the now-extinct branches.
There is more but this conveys the reasons for dismay. How could any one believe this kind of stuff? I kept looking for evidence that it was being written in levity, but found nothing to suggest such. The final sentence was a question “How do you challenge a dictator?”. The real question is why would any one write this stuff?
Don Buck
Bartlett
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