Pascal's Prophecy...

"My New Order has attracted the attention of the press with the rise of Donald Trump as a candidate for President of the United States because his first wife Ivana Trump revealed that Donald Trump reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. It can be seen that there are clear similarities between the speeches of Trump and the speeches of Hitler. Here are examples: They repeat themselves constantly, saying the same things over and over again. They never admit they have made a mistake, nor do they ever take anything back. To any criticism, they respond by insults and name-calling. They use a low form of language, with simple sentences, even a person with the lowest level of education or with no education at all can understand. Studies have shown that Trump speaks at a 4th-grade reading level. Most of the words he uses are only one syllable long. Researchers studying Trump's speaking style and searching for the reason it appeals to such a wide audience have found that most of the words Trump uses are only one syllable long. Almost all of the remaining works Trump uses are only two syllables long. Trump almost never uses a three-syllable word except when he has to, such as the word California." Amazon.com

Pascal’s Prophecy
(c) 27 December 2019, the Griot Poet

Adolph Hitler was a clown show.
So much so
Charlie Chaplin
In one of his rare talkies
Did a spoof parody documentary
Called “The Dictator”
For laughs.

So much so,
Chamberlain before Churchill
Thought nothing about concessions,
Sold them as cool
To Britain citizens because of the person
He thought he was dealing with was:
Disturbed;
Caricature:
Fool.

His brown shirts were
Barroom thugs,
Lugs semiconscious enough
To absorb every consonant and vowel
Of his disjointed diatribes
On AM talk radio.

This ninth-grade art school dropout
Had a faux halo as he
Harkened back to a
Mythical past when
Germany was “great again,”
Arming for the next great racial
Conflagration,
Harassing poets,
Scientists,
Intellectuals;
“Disappearing”
Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals
Caught...at the border.

“History does not repeat, but it often rhymes,”
Samuel Clemmons/Mark Twain
A quote that refrains
As we mark time
At this moment in history.

Fascism, like fungus, is exponential.
The gateway drug is the small things
Modern-day Chamberlains
Let you get away with.
Utopia literally means “nowhere place,”
As dystopias follow the Second Law of
Thermodynamics.

The electronics
Transitioned from vacuum tubes
To MOSFETs
As information sharing
Got faster,
The evolution to
140 characters were inevitable
And well-suited for a demagogue
That’s read Adolph’s speeches
More than the Bible;
Resembles Damien Thorn
More than Jesus
And not mistakingly,
Has loyalty to NO ONE,
Yet demands it
To the self-destruction of his minions.

George Santayana said:

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer,
Heeding the warning of Albert Einstein
And Leo Szilard

Could only tearfully quote the
Bhagavad Gita at the birth of the atomic age:

“If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst forth at once into the sky,
It would be like the splendor of the MIGHTY ONE:
Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

VOTE.

Let not apathy be our epitaph.

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences, where he made significant contributions to the study of fluids and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method. Wikipedia