In March of 1952, Alan Turing was put on trial for being “homosexual.”Turing chose chemical castration as opposed to jail and in 1954 died of a suspected suicide by cyanide poisoning. Turing saved the world. Alan Turing and his team of mathematicians were responsible for breaking the unbreakable German, “Enigma” code, used to transmit secret war plans across occupied Europe during World War II. On behalf of Mr. Turing, you are welcome, for being able to maintain your culture and languages https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing. This example of short-sided bigotry was a hallmark of the 20th century.
At the dawning of the 21st century, globalism has a chance of making the world a smaller village with a greater chance of cooperative harmony. In an instant, I can communicate a thought around the world, share ideas, disagree and take incoming fire. Bam! Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen and Brexit have severed the threads of anti-racism, anti-jingoism and anti-Islam in an attempt to break the zipper that binds us together. We are exposed, dangling like a child who has lost his shorts. If I cannot be a bigger person, I will be a bigger bully.
Madame Le Pen http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/europe/marine-le-pen-profile/index.html and Monsieur Trump have tapped into a polite, political phrase bigots now use for cover, ‘Populism.’ In the 1960’s in America it was called Jim Crow. So, we are in the way back machine, anti- immigration, isolationism, destroying long held European alliances and kicking our own sets of brown people. Le Pen’s ties to Russia [bank loans] are well documented. This profile is eerily like that of the new American President, Donald Trump. Mr. Trump has taken the counsel of a suspected neo Nazi group sympathizer, in Steve Bannon, filled his Executive Cabinet with self-serving capitalist and set a course for climate denial, healthcare reversal, voter suppression, war mongering and destruction of women’s rights, that will set us back decades.
Le Pen’s biggest influence has been her father, National Front (France) founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen. The National Front, wants to limit the rights of immigrants, restrict their numbers and in affect make life a living Hell for them in France. Donald Trump has made two failed attempts at legally limiting immigration into the United States, Le Pen plans to just make emigres lives miserable. Le Pen has spoken openly about ridding society of “Anglo-Saxon multiculturalism” and liberal correctness. Trump has incoherently put forth a plan that has, according to his mood, both ridiculed and praised the effectiveness of NATO. The common core of their ideas has been “MY TRIBE FIRST.”
I remember at the height of the Vietnam War protest, “love it or leave it” was breathlessly echoed in the cavernous halls of conservatism. The echoes only made the liberal cause stronger and two men of color spoke for a generation, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali. Dr. King at the end of his life spoke out forcibly against the Vietnam War and Muhammad Ali captured the hearts of young black and white America with his anti-war stance. That was the seed of 21st Century progress, vigilance, protest and being “woke.” Being woke has now taken on new meaning, it is the clarion call to stop Trump, Le Pen, Brexit and a possible Frexit. A new global 21st Century economy is here whether the 20th century world wants it or not.
The world is not scary, the fear comes from the people who control it.
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