There are approximately 320 million Americans living in the United States. Sadly, those who benefit greatly from living in our country compose less than 10 percent of the population. 150+ million live in the ‘low-income’ level or struggle below the poverty line. Our country has become a plutocracy. The wealthy own an entire political party. Every law passed by Republicans and proposed by Trump benefits millionaires and billionaires. The working class will pay for their lifestyles filled with luxury and privilege, while our quality of life deteriorates.

Trump has escalated this fact, and his policies are those of Adolf Hitler in the early 1930’s. Trump remade our government into a one-party system. His cabinet and closest advisers are white millionaires and billionaires. He continues his efforts to repeal the first amendment by constantly lying to the American people, while he supports ‘Trump Television’ and calls legitimate news agencies ‘fake news.’ Hitler’s basic philosophy was ‘if you tell a lie often enough and long enough, the people will eventually accept it as the truth.’ The fact that one-third of the American people believe Trump’s falsehoods proves that he was correct.

The question is, ‘are you willing to have all of your freedoms removed?’ Will you allow a dictator to control everything in your life.

Trump and Putin are complicit in a single goal; to change America by destroying our democracy.

The November election is the most important in history. Vote unless your are willing to become a nation of slaves.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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