By Alan Kanner
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It is quite surprising that, for nearly 10 years, millions of people continue to spell MAGA incorrectly. Please let me explain that the correct spelling of MAGA is M-A-F-I-A.
The leader of this mafia is unequivocally “The Don.” Throughout these years, The Don has relied essentially on the same strategy.
He, himself, does not directly perform the mafia’s violent and murderous acts. Like all Dons, he gets others – in his case, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the January 6th insurrectionists, and more recently, ICE and the US military – to perform the acts that he orders. He has violated his oath to faithfully execute the laws of the United States nearly every day he has been in office.
When asked whether he needed to uphold the Constitution of the United States, his response was “I don’t know.” Every eighth-grade student knows the correct answer to that question, but not The Don.
Inside The Don’s world, there are only two possible positions: you are either on his side, or you are the enemy. Why is there almost rabid polarity in the US now? You can thank The Don.
Like all mob bosses, The Don’s primary weapon is extortion. His pattern of interaction is that he initiates conflict by making massive threats then sadistically stomps his foot on his opponent’s neck, followed by a superficial retreat, claiming he is willing to negotiate.
That is the game plan. The chaos The Don creates is intentional. The main purpose of the chaos is to provide protective cover to obscure all the corrupt and clandestine business transactions he is simultaneously conducting to steal massive amounts of money in operations specially designed to be so complicated that they are impossible to trace or audit.
There is one critical factor that distinguishes The Don’s criminal operations from many other mafia organizations: despite the exception of his unrelenting secretive and corrupt business maneuvers, he generally conducts most of his criminal behaviors openly in public.
The open display of his criminal behavior has a paradoxical effect on the public. Millions of Americans reason that The Don’s criminal behaviors must not be illegal because, if they were illegal, he would be arrested – just like most other Americans who are arrested if they commit illegal behaviors.
But The Don is not arrested, in part, because he has successfully corrupted nearly the entire American judicial system. Similarly, he lies so compulsively and so often that people cannot accept the idea that anyone could be lying virtually all the time he speaks.
There will be a day when this M-A-F-I-A boss is gone. However, the longer The Don sits in that White House office, the greater the destruction to life and the planet. It is a moral duty of every American to stop this criminal.
Alan Kanner, Ph.D., is a psychologist in Amherst, MA.
