"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King
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There's a great similarity among all tyrants in general and between Trump and Sisi in particular. Not only in thoughts and methods, but even in using of the same words during their speeches!
The new White House budget's director, Mick Mulvaney, on Thursday, has described the President Donald Trump's budget proposal as 'fairly compassionate'
(Ref 1), a description reminds us directly of the famous quote of Sisi, in his speech declaring military coup on the 3rd of July over the first Elected president ever in Egypt's History Dr. Mohammed Morsi, about "The (Egyptian) people who has never seen compassion from anyone".
Looking at this 'fairly compassionate' budget, we will see clear increase in Military and border security funds, while, on the other hand, great decrease in environmental and welfare programs including "Meals on the wheels"! (Ref 2)
One of these points of similarities between Trump and Sisi, is the business background they both came from. Trump of course is an old businessman, and Sisi comes from the institution who controls around 60% of Egypt's economy, the army. (Ref 3) That's why they are both thinking of the price of everything, not the value of anything, as Oscar Wild said.
The soldier's mentality, in general, consists of absolute obedience and complete submissiveness, where opposition is considered treason! A Military coup leader believes he is at war with his opponents, and in wars, or even in the training, there are a percent of casualties!
The businessman is also seeking for profits only, even if this comes over people's food, health and education, in favor of the rich who have benefited surely from the tax-cut in the new budget. (Ref 4)
This is also very similar to what Sisi is doing in Egypt: destruction of the middle class, bankruptcy of small firms, escaping of foreign investors, reduction of foreign currency reserves and unprecedented inflation which led to that huge increase in prices.
In order to distract people of this huge robbery, it's necessary to talk in the name of nationalism, as emotional peoples are easily led than peoples who stop, think and question. That's why Sisi mentions a lot "Viva Egypt" in his speeches, and that's why trump choose his campaign slogan "Make America great again", and budget slogan "America first", a slogan tries to hide the " Systemic Deconstruction of the Federal Government and Its Role" as Nancy Pelosi said. (Ref 5)
But the nationalism tune only is not enough. The people must fear, as afraid people can never think. The tyrant message is always the same: There's a great danger over your security, but don't worry, I am here for you!
To convince people that there's a real danger threatens their security, Tyrants stick to great lies, as they know the bigger the lie is, the easier to be believed, as Joseph Goebbels said. That's the attitude of treating peoples as children as Noam Chomsky warned.
The military coup controlled media in Egypt have talked a lot about the "special agent Duck". In USA, Trump's Counselor Kellyanne Conway has been accusing Obama of spying over trumps campaign through the microwave!
These unbelievable lies needs huge propaganda in order to be believed, which Sisi called it "Media arms". If media refuses to share your lies, it's easily to call them "Fake news", which don't cover terrorist attacks so well.
It's also okay to talk about incidents never happened, like "Bowling Green Massacre" Conway talked about, (Ref 6) and an imagined terrorist attack in Sweden, Trump's tweeted about, which never happened neither. This tweet made a former Swedish PM asks about the kind of drug which Trumps takes. (Ref 7)
In order to encounter all these kinds of danger, it's necessary to increase military fund and get armed with more and more weapons! Nobody knows against whom Sisi would use the new French helicopter carrier, mistral, the same as nobody knows the need of Trump's budget increase in military fund, while US is already spending much more on military than any other country in the world .
It's important here to remember that former USSR has collapsed while its nuclear missiles are about to rust in Soviet army stores, at the time when the Soviet people themselves have lost their belief in communism.
That's exactly what both Trump and Sisi are doing in Egypt and USA, made many Egyptians and Americans feel they don't belong to their own countries. Sisi really described it best when he said he found "chemistry" between him and the then-candidate Donald Trump.
REFERNCES:
1- https://goo.gl/ba8wNl
2- https://goo.gl/xQGylF
3- https://goo.gl/Hrsl8Z
4- https://goo.gl/qzDZCk
5- https://goo.gl/xcj7VG
6- https://goo.gl/lt22ap
7- https://goo.gl/iSqepA
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