Meanwhile, as a Tim Burton produced episode of All My Children plays out in Drumpf's Washington, two nations who will comprise the nexus of the next, would-be global empire, are spreading their fascism like this:
Milos Zeman, an outspoken immigration critic and admirer of Russia's Vladimir Putin, has won a second five-year term as president of the Czech Republic.
Zeman defeated political newcomer Jiri Drahos in the central European country's presidential runoff election that ended Saturday.
Zeman took 51.4 percent of the vote against Drahos' 48.6 percent, according to the Czech Statistical Office, with turnout at 66.6 percent.
It's a victory for advocates of closer ties between the Czech Republic and Russia and China. Drahos, 68, a chemist and academic, had advocated improving ties with the European Union and NATO.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/28/581384153/pro-russian-czech-president-milos-zeman-wins-second-term
Many scoff and say it can't happen here.
To which The Gadfly would dutifully respond that the following shouldn't have been able to happen here either:
First they came for the immigrants. And I did not speak out, because I was not an immigrant. Then they came for the . . . . . . well, you get the meaning - hopefully.
The larger point that The Gadfly is clumsily trying to point out here is that China and Russia are currently America's two most powerful economic and military adversaries. Sure - America has it's allies - for now. But if people truly believe that America does not need every ally that it can get around the world, and keep on it's side, then perhaps you ought to consider emigrating to China or Russia at your earliest convenience - you know - just to get a good feel for what your future life will be like living as a comrade under either one of those regimes.
----TFG
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