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November 9, 2019
Whistleblowing Untill Counter Revolution
By Robert Cogan
Urging massive refutation of opposition to Whistleblowing. Warning of Trump barricading himself in White House bunkers after loss.
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I, ROBERT COGAN, am the WHISTLEBLOWER! And You can too! Tomorrow I'm going down to my local whistle store and buy one (maybe a couple) with neck chains. I hope a lot of peeps will follow me with complaints to TV "News" to, at last, not silence, but MUTE, MUzzle Trump! Stop retweeting & refuting him! Stop using the spectacle of this antisocial disorder carrier to sell ads! Show texts of his tweets only twice a week (with refutations). Have them read dispassionately by a newscaster before refutation. Never show Trump moving, especially in front of one of his rallies! They are recruiting events for him to recruit cadre for his counter revolution. After he loses the election, he will be persuaded that it was rigged, he is still president! He will retreat to the bunkers under the White House with his "yes men." Calls will go out to his cadre to protect him at the White House. A motley crew of open gun carriers, etc. will gather to occupy the sidewalks around the White House. He will have to 'phone in his rally images. Imagine him roaring from a jumbotron! His fascist Republican Congressmen will continue to rant too, unless purged.
I could be Bernie Sanders older brother by similarity. I was born in Manhattan, 1940, he, about a year later, in Brooklyn. I too am a white male American. A retired college professor of philosophy. We both were born of Jewish parents. I was in Harlem CORE, He in Chicago CORE. We both went to the University of Chicago; me 58 - 62, he 60 - 64 (I think.) And yet, I don't recall meeting him! U. of Chicago had plenty of progressive activists despite being a bastion of Milton Friedman. He went into politics in Vermont in '68 (?) and I settled that year into a college professorship in northwestern Pennsylvania.
I've been a long-time minor activist in the civil rights, anti-war, pro feminism movements and taught critical thinking and social philosophy. I've been a unionist, on the Board of Directors of a food co-op, an ACLU chapter president, a CASA, and an elected Green Party Borough Councilman in my small hometown. I'm happily married, for over 50 years, to a woman significantly responsible for my modest success in life. We have two great kids and one grandchild, for whom we hope there is a decent future! Recently I've been pushing Modern Monetary Theory.