Jailer In Chief
If you run Trump's qualities through the lens of The Gulag Archipelago, you would see that he was put into power for what he lacks and that's precisely why he must be removed from power now
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“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
As I make my through Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, I paused in Part III: The Destructive Labor Camps; Chapter 20: The Dogs’ Service.
I realized the Nobel Prize winner, who spent 11 years in Soviet forced labor prison camps and in exile, was describing the current occupant of the White House. The chapter was about the qualities required to run a forced labor prison camp in the USSR, and they mirrored the character qualities of Donald Trump, who was identified by a spotter agent for the KGB in the ‘80s before being installed into the White House in 2016 with the help of the Russian military.
The qualities that one should lack when being chosen for the position of prison camp leader are empathy, the ability to distinguish good from evil,
The “tsars of the Archipelago” — the word he used to describe the USSR’S prison network — had to be cruel and merciless. Anyone who exhibited any spiritual training or a “minimally circumspect conscience” — even a speck of kindness — were eliminated.
They had to be “constantly a weapon of violence, a constant participant in evil.”
He writes how the camp keepers passed through a severe negative-selection process—both in morality and mentality—and how they were universally selected for the following traits, excerpted from his book:
Arrogance — no limits are set to his power, and he admits to no mistakes
Stupidity — always follows on the heels of smugness. Deified alive, each knows everything inside out, doesn’t need to read or learn, and no one can tell him anything worth pausing over
Autocracy — autotyranny — in this respect the camp keepers were fully the equals of the very worst of the serf owners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Greed and money-grubbing — among the camp keepers this was the most widespread trait of all. Not every one was stupid, and not every one was a petty tyrant—but every last one was engaged in attempting to enrich himself
Malice, cruelty — there was no curb, either practical or moral, to restrain these traits. Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. An oaken cruelty is etched into their faces, and they always have a gloomy, dissatisfied expression. They could possess no decency
Upon reading this section, I had to pause and dash this report off to you because I was shocked at how well this defined Donald Trump, and how we need to be viewing him as a Soviet forced labor prison camp jailer rather than a president.
This fact suggests that the American people are powerful and Trump was put into power to control them.
The Gulag Archipelago is the book that brought down the Soviet Union. Published in Paris in 1973, Solzhenitsyn exposed the systemic horrors of the camps, and in one book, snuffed out decades of Soviet propaganda.
After its publication, intellectuals who bought into the communist myths were forced to wake up to the cruel totalitarian reality. The Soviet forced labor camp system was baked in from the very beginning — a violent, cruel, murderous weapon, sanctioned by Lenin and refined by Stalin. People were turned into slaves, systemically and sadistically, and the archipelago was designed to demoralize and dehumanize its occupants, who were starved and often worked to death, while also being starved of any humanity.
In reading Part III, Chapter 20, I am thoroughly convinced that I am correct in my thinking that Trump is the chosen jailer for America, for the decent qualities he lacks and the evil qualities he possesses.
As I reported, he is building a concentration camp system in the US, while masking its intent by distracting with three awful things a day along with bread and circus.
There is no question in my mind he has to be physically removed from power, along with his violent stooges, to prevent the forced labor prison system that is coming for Americans.
It’s a good thing that 25 countries have now signed up to prosecute Putin’s regime for war crimes.
It’s a good thing that France is standing in the breach against technofascism.
But it’s not enough.
Trump, a violent grim reaper building a gulag system in America, has to be seen for who he really is, what he lacks, and swiftly removed from power.
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