In Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum where over 2000 of the world's political and economic leaders gather, Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, gave a speech that marks the end of the old American led world. He not only named the madness and threats to the world by America's mentally ill president, but he clearly said what the world must do to protect itself and end the madness. This is not new to Europe. Europe has seen fascist and cruel authoritarians many times over the last century, from Mussolini and Hitler to the Soviets and Putin and Trump today.
Make no mistake. America has become a threat to the free world. We are the enemy.
Here is a key passage from Carney's speech:
"In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless. And in it, he asked a simple question: How did the communist system sustain itself?
And his answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, this shopkeeper places a sign in his window: "Workers of the world, unite!" He doesn't believe it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists.
Not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false.
Havel called this "living within a lie." The system's power comes not from its truth but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source: when even one person stops performing — when the greengrocer removes his sign — the illusion begins to crack.
Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down."
We in America must also "take our signs down." We cannot just pretend that because masked men are not breaking down our doors that America has not changed. America is over, or so say the MAGA cult, the Theocratic Zealots, the white supremacist insecure overgrown boys trying to be men by being scary.
But the Soul and Spirit of America will not be broken by this latest assault by masculine insecurity and fear. These people are not strong, even though they are violent, they are frightened and confused and panicking trying to stop the evolution of the human mind to an ever greater manifestation of the divinely inspired dream of America that All People are Created Equal.
Trump and MAGA will not stand.
