Is there a cure for the AO plague?

Along with Covid, Agent Orange disease is the greatest threat to the world.

It started as an annoying virus with symptoms of narcissism, personal financial gain, dictatorial aspirations combined with side effects consisting of countrywide nausea, queasiness and an elevated temperature.

Now it has manifested into a pandemic with advanced side effects of hatred, violence, restricted rights and a heavy dose of dictatorial symptoms.

Israel just contracted a bad case of AO aka authoritarianism.

Prime Minister Netanyahu who was previously a dedicated democratic leader when he was the Israeli ambassador to the UN from 1984-88 and subsequent Prime Minister, eventually drank the Kool-Aid, infected by his self serving alignment with the conservative and ultra nationalist representation in the Israeli government.

These radical actions are completely self-motivated by the overriding desire for power. The end result is to exonerate himself from charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate scandals involving powerful media moguls and wealthy associates.

The new law limits the Israeli Supreme Court’s ability to overturn decisions made by government ministers.

Reasonableness has been greatly diminished throughout the world and autocracies are front and center…trump, Putin, Erdogan, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, Lukashenko, Bashar Al-Assad, to name a few.

As of the 2020’s, there are 52 nations with a dictator or authoritarian regime ruling the country: Three in Latin and South America, 27 in Asia and the Middle East, and 22 in Africa.

In America, the extreme right wing membership has increased and been legitimized exponentially since trump took office in 2016.

Americans cannot continue to be infected with this debilitating disease or inflicted with this heinous man, ever again.

Democracy is on life support worldwide…we must find a cure and fight to defend political freedom.

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