Rational Nation USA

  "Buddhanature is the inn ate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss."         Karl Brunnholzl "Seek first to understand, then to be understood."    Steven Covey Project 2025 is something every distractor, like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Putin, et all would support and implement. Yet in the world's most successful and prosperous democracy we have one "man", one party, a rogue group of conservative ignoramuses, Christian Nationalists, and nearly 50 percent of Americans apparently supportive of this trash plan. Project 2025. The conservative's plan to thoroughly and completely destroy our democracy and the democratic republic it has been for over 240 years.

When Ivy League-educated, formerly sane politicians spew conspiracy theories, debunked talking points and contempt for science, the question often arises: Do they believe this nonsense (i.e. have they become thickheaded by listening to Rush Limbaugh and watching all that Fox News?), or are they cynical purveyors of claptrap designed to woo unsophisticated voters? America is perhaps facing the greatest challenge yet to our democratic republic. The fact the nation's own president and his party (the GOP) are at the heart of this grave threat is somethng many of us foresaw and predicted. But approximately 40% of America (give or take) see Trump as the savior of America's white population. They are fearful of losing their white priviledge in a nation they really believe belongs to white folks. Trump's most avid suporters are therefore only too happy to throw their weight behind the Authoritarian and his party apparatus who they believe will keep the status quo and protect t...

Commentators often call Donald Trump a threat to American democracy. That’s not quite right. Trump is a threat to the institutions that keep American democracy liberal. It’s unlikely that Trump would strip Americans of the right to elect their leaders. It’s more likely that he’d undermine those institutions that restrain the power of the leaders Americans elect. He’d undermine the institutions that limit presidential power and safeguard individual rights and equality under the law. The Atlantic June 2016   During Tuesday's SOTU address Trump again reinforced what many have known about him from the beginning of his run at the presidency. That being his intention to profoundly change America in ways undemocratic and contrary to our founding documents. When Trump said during his SOTU, “Tonight, I call on the congress to empower every Cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers—and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American peopl...