Hitler was a narcissist obsessed with power and hatred for anyone who disagreed with him. He excoriated people in meetings, newspapers, and the new mass media; Radio. Much of his communication to the people was lies and total fantasies. Other people in power dismissed him as a clown who had little chance of winning power in an election. The government became infiltrated by Hitler’s converts.

            He covertly directed anti-government anarchist groups to subvert the rule of law. When Nazi Party had reached about a third of the German Reichstag, he tried for a power grab and lost. When the Party started to lose seats, opposition people started to die.

            Hitler ultimately got into power by making pacts with other politicians and then breaking those pacts to gain more power with other pacts. Finally he was made chancellor and the people he felt weren’t loyal to him were permanently retired. The military and everyone else had to swear allegiance to him.

            One addition to the “Big Lie” he needed was an internal enemy. He made the Communist Party into an enemy of the people. After eliminating them under the guise that the Reichstag building fire was started by Communists, he made Jews and other ethnics’ enemies of the Aryan people.

            This was all done in the first few years of the 1930s. Does any of this sound like the last half of the twenty-teens?

            Jeff Bezos is stepping down as the top honcho of Amazon after buying MGM Studios. His new position will still keep him very much in control of the company. Several analysts have questioned why he paid a third more than MGM’s value. The stated reason for the purchase is to give Amazon the in-house ability to make its own movie and television shows for its own streaming service. MGM will give Amazon the people, facilities and library to stream content for twenty-four hours each day.

            One analyst had another idea which may be the back of Bezo’s mind. In MGM’s Library are out takes of “the Apprentice” which MGM never released. Tom Arnold was one of the contestants. Some time after he left the show he was interviewed about his time on it. Tom mentioned all the racist comments Trump made and were cut out of the final release. Those comments should be in the MGM Library.

            The question is will Bezos release them showing Trump’s racist, sexist personality making it difficult for the GOP to continue to blindly follow him? Will they increase his white supremeists following and give them greater infiltration into the government and every day life? Will the out-takes be released during the nightly news programs when the main topic is Trump’s legal cases?

            Bezos hates Trump so this fall could be very, very interesting

            An erudite person said as scary as Trump’s try to overthrow the election and Democracy was what if a competent Trump-like person got elected? So many Presidents and Prime Ministers around today’s world have changed their country’s laws and constitutions to allow them to stay in power and to restrict voting by people who would not have voted to re-elect.

            Xi, Putin, and others have revised their laws so they can remain in power. Even Israel’s Netanyahu thought he could stay in his corrupt position and like Trump hopes to con people into getting back in power, both need to be in power to avoid criminal charges.

            Several hundred psychologists signed a letter to congress’ leaders – both Trump sycophants — questioning Trump’s mental condition in December after the election. They were across the political spectrum so their concern wasn’t political. The January 6 insurrection and continuing The Big Lie of winning so as to keep the adulations of his followers indicates his mental instability. Many books written by his former aides and associates confirm the psychologists’ evaluations.

            In less than erudite terms, he is completely nuts and has been a rich pampered narcissist all his life. He’s acting like the unstable person hundreds of experts said. Just as dictators of the past and today, he is addicted to power and adulation of sycophants and weak minded people. A Democracy requires the truth and voting participation by all Americans.