Comments by "Ginny Jolly" (@ginnyjollykidd) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1. Lukashenko sounds a lot like American President Trump. I figure Trump read Lukashenko's and Putin's playbook and tried to implement it in USA. TL;DR There are several reasons why it didn't work 1. We weren't going to be divided as a country by creating a "Middle Eastern and Mexican refugee haters" faction. Black Americans have been awakening people to care about all peoples rights including theirs. More people advocate for black and brown people now than ever in history. 2. Despite inherent bias against non- white people, both blacks and whites and other ethnic groups have protested successfully without being jailed. It is our right, written straight into our Constitution: "Congress shall make no law ...forbidding the freedom of speech or of the press..." All the 50 states have similar writing in State Constitutions. No protesters peaceably assembled should be jailed, and for the most part, they weren't. 3. We have real elections and more than 1 party. For example, the Republican party, the Democratic party, the Green party, and the Libertarian party. Each party has a party election to choose whom the people want to represent them. These are Primaries. The General Election is where people vote for the one candidate they want to lead as President. This grab for power didn't work for Trump, even though he tried to sabotage mail-in ballots by having the Postmaster General remove mail-sorting machines. He also tried to command vote counters to stop counting votes. Didn't work. Government workers swear service to the Constitution and by extension, the Rule of Law, not to a President. Violating that brings fines and jail time. 3. President Trump tried to persuade both the Governor of Georgia and VP Pence to first cut out a fixed number of pro-Biden ballots that would allow Trump to win a second election. He told VP Pence to not certify the election. And you can't tell my he didn't whip up his followers to storm the Capitol building. 4. Our president would have tried to introduce a bill to abolish the limitation on the number of Presidential terms they can serve. (the irony is that Trump's party had put in the term limitation against the Democrats because of the only president to sit more than 3 terms, Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 5. All the things dictators and monarchs do at the expense of their people, like profiting materially and monetarily from being in office (besides the salary paid to office-holders) are specifically prohibited by the Constitution. This also includes trying to pin wrongdoing on potential election rivals. Donald Trump was impeached twice for these violations, and he even now faces civil and criminal charges against him that he committed while in office, and even before he'd become president. President Trump threatened to call on the US Military to prevent the peaceful transfer of power we have enjoyed these past 252 years. The military said they will respond to that person who becomes president on Inauguration Day. The military also swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, that document which defines exactly how government officers are chosen and how they conduct themselves in office. Not any one president. 6. The free press—the free media—are allowed to scrutinize government officers. They have this unabridged right to record everything in government and report it to the American People. Because of all these reasons and more, Trump's ruse to turn the US into a dictatorship with undefined limits was foiled. We the People weren't fooled. If anything, Trump did a great service for us by galvanizing Americans to the causes we felt were important. There were masses of women in pink kitty-ear hats, masses of scientists motivated out of their ivory towers, and masses of black people who peacefully protested at Washington D.C. ,as it was their right—my right, too—to redress grievances, assemble peaceably, and say what we want with few exceptions. “Politicians are like diapers. they need to be changed often, and for the same reasons.” —Mark Twain
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