Needless suffering and death is the Donald Trump's cudgel to bully Blue states into his racist agenda, and it is Trump's MO. Why Dr. Fauci is correct
While this is known, what is not appreciated is that Trump has made an art form out of use of death and also use of the fear of impending death as his Modus operandi. We will first of all reference what Fauci delivers and why Trump will continue to use fear of death and suffering as his governmental philosophy
From the article about Dictators, i.e. the 2nd one, we have the following checklist as of the psychological stand point of the Dictator
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"For the personality disorders, it appeared that a 'big six' emerged: sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal," Coolidge and Singer wrote. "All three dictators also showed evidence of psychotic thought processes."
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Trump's use of brutality with respect to The Conavirus throws Trump right into the "Dictator identification checklist " with ease. Also threats of violence through his psychotic thought processes
Mind you this thought process dysfunction as to Trump showed up when Trump screamed at a Chinese-American reporter about "Ask China" as more evidence that Weijia Jiang had kicked Trump into more psychotic thought processes.
Now lets get rolling with respect to Fauci and unnecessary
First of all, FAUCI himself.
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Fauci Plans to Use Hearing to Warn of ‘Needless Suffering and Death’
Sheryl Gay Stolberg 1 hr ago
Fauci says reopening U.S. economy too soon could lead to needless deaths: NYT
Video by Reuters
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and a central figure in the government’s response to the coronavirus, plans to deliver a stark warning to the Senate on Tuesday: Americans would experience “needless suffering and death” if the country opens up prematurely.
Dr. Fauci, who has emerged as the perhaps nation’s most respected voice during the worst public health crisis in a century, is one of four top government doctors scheduled to testify remotely at a high-profile — and highly unusual — hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. He made his comments in an email to a New York Times reporter late Monday night.
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“The major message that I wish to convey to the Senate HLP committee tomorrow is the danger of trying to open the country prematurely,” he wrote. “If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to ‘Open America Again,’ then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country. This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.”
It is a message starkly at odds with the things-are-looking-up argument that President Trump has been trying to put out: that states are ready to reopen and the pandemic is under control.
In the Rose Garden earlier on Monday , Mr. Trump declared that “we have met the moment and we have prevailed,” though he later walked back the comments and said he only meant to say the country had prevailed on increasing access to coronavirus testing — an assertion public health experts say is not true.
? Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times Dr. Anthony S. Fauci last month at the White House before a coronavirus task force briefing.
Dr. Fauci, who has served under Republican and Democratic presidents for more than three decades and has worked to master the art of contradicting Mr. Trump without correcting him , echoed the language of Mr. Trump’s own plan, Opening Up America Again, which lays out guidelines for state officials to consider in reopening their economies.
But signs of opposition from parts of Mr. Trump’s party appeared almost immediately. Shortly after Dr. Fauci’s comments were published Monday night, Representative Andy Biggs, Republican of Arizona, pushed back on Twitter, and invoked another top scientist: Dr. Deborah L. Birx, Mr. Trump’s coronavirus response coordinator.
“Dr. Fauci has continually used his bully pulpit to bring public criticism on governors who are seeking to open up their states,” Mr. Biggs wrote . “The Fauci-Birx team have replaced faith w/ fear & hope w/ despair. The remedy is to open up our society & our economy. Trust & respect our freedom.”
The White House plan recommends, among other things, that before reopening states should have a “downward trajectory of positive tests” or a “downward trajectory of documented cases” of coronavirus over two weeks, while conducting robust contact tracing and “sentinel surveillance” testing of asymptomatic people in vulnerable populations, like nursing homes.
But the guidelines are not mandatory. Even as the death toll mounts — more than 80,000 Americans have lost their lives to Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus — many states are reopening without adhering to them, seeking to ease the pain as millions of working people and small-business owners are facing economic ruin while sheltering at home.
In more than half of states easing restrictions last week, case counts were trending upward, the proportion of positive test results was rising, or both.
“We’re not reopening based on science,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden , a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We’re reopening based on politics, ideology and public pressure. And I think it’s going to end badly.”
Tuesday’s hearing will be Dr. Fauci’s first appearance before Congress since Mr. Trump declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency on March 13, and it will offer a chance for him to address lawmakers and the public without the president by his side. The last time Dr. Fauci appeared on Capitol Hill, on March 11, when he was still permitted to testify before the Democratic-controlled House, he made headlines by bluntly telling the nation, “Things will get worse.”
His return to the Capitol, though virtual, will be must-watch TV in Washington — one of the strangest high-stakes hearings in recent memory. Dr. Fauci himself is now in “modified quarantine,” he has said, after what he described as a “low risk” exposure to someone infected with the virus.
He will appear alongside Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration; and Adm. Brett P. Giroir, the assistant secretary for health. Drs. Redfield and Hahn are also in self-quarantine after exposure to the virus, as is the chairman of the committee, Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee.
All of the witnesses will testify remotely, and Mr. Alexander will lead the hearing from his home in Maryville, Tenn. But Dr. Fauci, who has been the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, will be the star. He has been largely out of public view for the past two weeks, ever since Mr. Trump canceled his daily coronavirus task force briefings.
At 79, Dr. Fauci has become both a sudden celebrity during the pandemic and a target for the far right . His face, with his wire-rim glasses and neatly parted gray hair, has been commemorated on sweatshirts , knee socks and mugs. A petition has circulated to name him People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” and someone who has actually garnered that title — the actor Brad Pitt — has portrayed Dr. Fauci on “ Saturday Night Live. ”
Some conservatives, though, see him as a media hound who is undermining the president. After Mr. Trump said drug companies would make a coronavirus vaccine ready “soon,” Dr. Fauci amended the president’s timetable, giving a more accurate estimate of at least a year or 18 months.
When Mr. Trump said a “cure” might be possible, Dr. Fauci explained that antiviral drugs were being studied to see if they might make the illness less severe. In March, he gave an extraordinarily candid interview to Jon Cohen, a writer for Science magazine , in which he confessed that he knew Mr. Trump’s assertions that he had slowed the pandemic by banning travel from China did not comport with the facts.
“I know, but what do you want me to do?” he said. “I mean, seriously Jon, let’s get real, what do you want me to do?”
After that interview, many in Washington thought Mr. Trump might fire Dr. Fauci, and the president stoked those fears by retweeting a conservative hashtag, #FireFauci.
In fact, it would be very difficult for the president to fire him because he is not a political appointee. And Mr. Trump himself has dismissed such talk; he has called Dr. Fauci “a wonderful guy,” and last month, he joked that Dr. Fauci, who is from Brooklyn, is so popular he could run against Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , the liberal firebrand Democrat from New York, and “win easily.”
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Now about the Trump governmental control MODUS OPERANDI
https://www.seeker.com/how-dictators-keep-control-discovery-news-1765571212.html
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How Dictators Keep Control
Fear, information control and personality disorders all play a role in keeping a people under a tight grip, experts say.
By DNewsPublished on 12/21/2011 at 3:00 AM
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Images of North Korean women (and some men) weeping inconsolably at news of the death of strongman Kim Jong-Il was perhaps not surprising in a country where obedience is expected and much of the society, experts say, followed their "Dear Leader" because it has been in their collective best interest to do so.
But how do dictators like Kim -- or Saddam Hussein, or Hitler or Stalin for that matter -- maintain power over their people?
Psychologists and sociologists who study terrorism say dictators are able to spread fear among their people, and place themselves as their only salvation. Manufacturing an external threat, like Jews to Hitler's Germany, or the entire West for Kim, help keep the society off balance and collectively paranoid as well.
Dictators also exploit a well-known instinct for most people to seek protection from a strong leader, according to Alice LoCicero, a Cambridge, Mass.-based clinical psychologist and researcher on leadership and terrorism.
"Our behavior is still affected by what went on thousands of years ago," LoCicero said. "It's easier to understand why it's adaptive and common for people to bond to powerful leaders. In Darwinian evolution, the people who bonded with the leader survived. That instinct got passed along."
LoCicero has studied terrorist leadership and victims of terrorism from all five continents. She says that in some cultures, it's important to show respect to leaders, whether it's North Korea's Kim family of dictators or just the local schoolteacher.
"It would be embarrassing to a family or individual if they didn't show a great deal of respect," she said.
Dictators are also able to rule with more practical tools, such as fear and control of information, according to Jerrold Post, director of the political psychology program at George Washington University.
Post has studied the personalities of both Hussein and Kim for several decades, and jokes that his field of dictator scholarship may soon be obsolete.
"I've lost a lot of my old friends," he said. "But we still have (Iranian leader Mahmoud) Ahmadenijad."
Post said that in both Iraq and North Korea, dictators tightly controlled the flow of information. That control was upended in the past two years during the "Arab spring" revolts that swept away despots in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and some of the Gulf states, revolts that were encouraged in large part by information spread by cell phones and social media.
"Controlling information and controlling dissent are part of what goes into maintaining a totalitarian state," Post said.
In North Korea, Kim and his policies were responsible for a famine that led to the deaths of 1 to 2 million people, Post said. When food finally arrived, the message from state media was that it was a tribute to his leadership.
Now, as Kim's son Kim Jong-Eu prepares to take over, Western analysts are still largely in the dark about who is up and who is down in the North Korean power structure. Some are trying to glean meaning from the size of typefaces used in headlines mentioning government officials in officials North Korean state newspapers.
By most news accounts, Kim was a ruthless tyrant -- starving his own people while delivering a lavish lifestyle to himself and his generals; pursuing nuclear brinksmanship with South Korea and the West while his economy remained sputtering in the ditch.
So why don't his people rebel? There's such total control that four people talking together can be seen as a conspiracy, according to Post, who has interviewed North Korean defectors.
"We're talking about heavy penetration of internal security," he said. "Any manifestation of disloyalty or dissent is brutally punished."
Post said that the cult of personality around Kim and other dictators is fostered by myth-making about their origins. Kim, for example, was supposedly born in a village in the shadow of a sacred Korean mountain where his arrival was foretold by a swallow and he appeared under a double rainbow.
In reality, Kim was born in an impoverished town in the former Soviet Union where his father was leading a brigade of exiled Korean troops under Russian command. Kim's personality was the subject of a 2009 research paper by Frederick Coolidge, professor of psychology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Coolidge and colleague Daniel Singer used interviews with a South Korean psychologist who had "advanced psychological training and intimate and established knowledge of Kim Jong-il."
The Colorado psychologists had previously developed a personality test of sorts for dictators and used it to analyze both Hitler and Hussein. Kim's score came out pretty close.
"For the personality disorders, it appeared that a 'big six' emerged: sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal," Coolidge and Singer wrote. "All three dictators also showed evidence of psychotic thought processes."
Caption: A fresco features North Korean dictators Kim Jong Il (L) and Kim Il Sung.
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Once again
While this is known, what is not appreciated is that Trump has made an art form out of use of death and also use of the fear of impending death as his Modus operandi. We will first of all reference what Fauci delivers and why Trump will continue to use fear of death and suffering as his governmental philosophy
From the article about Dictators, i.e. the 2nd one, we have the following checklist as of the psychological stand point of the Dictator
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"For the personality disorders, it appeared that a 'big six' emerged: sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal," Coolidge and Singer wrote. "All three dictators also showed evidence of psychotic thought processes."
End of quote
Trump's use of brutality with respect to The Conavirus throws Trump right into the "Dictator identification checklist " with ease. Also threats of violence through his psychotic thought processes
To summarize, asking Trump to change is like asking a rapist to respect his sexual assault victims . He will not do it. What is made worse is that Fox and Friends, in communication is with almost Intelligence Community technician skill weaponizes Trump's dysfunction to spread terror, and to do it so Trump has continual control
Andrew Beckwith, PhD