Donald Trump and maga Republicans are not supporting American democracy

Echo opinion letter published in the Pennsylvania Reading Eagle

The slogan of the MAGA (cult❗) movement has always been “America First.” But it appears to be moving our society in a direction that is profoundly un-American.

MAGA`s social model is a two-tiered society of the rich and the poor, with the middle class eliminated or reduced. The upper tier will be difficult to move into, with harshly enforced standards of race, religion, social class and education. Rights will be rationed out only to those meeting the approval of the ruling elite. Political dissent will be ruthlessly suppressed. We are seeing this already in the legal harassment of journalists and the consolidation of media outlets.

In short, MAGA`s America will follow an authoritarian pattern, with a rigid class structure resembling that of the European aristocracy that our ancestors rejected 250 years ago.

Patriotic Americans need to act now to preserve our democracy. 

Use your rights to speak out, organize and vote while those rights still exist.

From Steven R. Gruber in Robeson Township Pennsylvania