Consider how dictators come to power
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Editor,
Why do we need to impeach the president? So we do not become a dictatorship. “A dictatorship is a type of government in which a single person or party has absolute power. This means that the ruler or party has complete control and the rights of the people are suppressed.”
If we allow our country to become a dictatorship, we lose every protection for the people. All government policy is at the whim of the dictator: who lives and who dies, who gets healthcare, who has a job, even who gets to eat, who you can talk to, what you can read, who can run a business.
People can’t simply cover their eyes and ears, so that they hear no evil and see no evil. We must all pay attention to the facts, the reality of what good hard-working people have witnessed and stated as truth under oath.
When there are no checks on the President, when he is not held accountable for breaking the law and defying the Constitution, when the balance of power is removed from the Congress and the Judiciary, we essentially become a dictatorship.
There are some countries in which the President is a dictator and Trump may not be well enough informed about our country’s politics to understand the difference. He would rather be a dictator than have to cooperate with others in government. It’s his way or the highway.
“In order for a dictatorship to form, all opponents of the dictator ultimately need to be removed.” Aspiring dictators sometimes give away their intentions by their evident desire to destroy opponents, according to Forbes report, “How Dictators Come To Power In A Democracy.”
If Republicans truly believe in the Constitution, they should be very afraid of the direction in which Trump is leading us. Even they, your republican representatives and senators in Washington, will be powerless, serving only at the pleasure of the President, not the people. Your vote in a dictatorship really doesn’t matter at all.
Carolyn Beecher
Ronan
