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Trump As a Blip in Democracy

March 28, 2022 by Helenfogarassy Leave a Comment

Donald Trump was an opportunist who took advantagee of America, the land of opportunity. In line with that frame of mind, he cozied with the world’s dictators while shunning democratic leaders, all in the name of America. Then afterr four years of Trump and a pandemic he politicezd, America said no more of this fake president.

History will prove the veracity of the seeming fact that Russia had a heavy hand in getting Trump elected to the US presidency in 2016. Enough evidence existed, however, that the 2020 election was the most secure ever. Trump’s own Cyber security expert made that statement before being fired. Nevertheless, voting security was beefed up for 2020. Trump lost.

Unable to admit defeat, Trump worked his base well into 2022 as the Covic pandemic was tamed even as Russia’s Putin launched an assault on Ukraine for no other reason than he wanted to own it. Ukraine’s defiance against being oppressed invigorated democracy throughout the world and brought into relief the difference between democracy and tyranny. Never oppressed but founded by forebears who fled from oppressors, today’s Americans have little experience with the rage engedered by being rendered powerless. Refugees now forced from homes in Ukraine will live with that knowledge for all their lives.

Hungarian-American writer Fogarassy has lived all her life with that early esperience of having to flee with her family from Soviet communism. She carried memories of that time through relocations and 20 years of independant work with the United Nations. That life experience is reflected in her published works.

America Votes Obama to Biden Past Trump is a collection of articles on the Trump presidency from the Hungarian-American perspective. She is a savvy New Yorker who worked for the Trump Organization during its infancy.

The Light of a Destiny Dark is a novel based on a memoir about Hungary during WWII and under Soviet Communism.

The Midas Maze is a novel about the vast international network that promotes development all across the world. Bureaucracy is an occupational hazard in that work.

Mission Improbable: The world community on a UN compound in Somalia is an account of internationals from, around the world interacting together.

d the unavoidable bureaucracy needed to carry out that work.

Mission Improbable: The World Community on a UN Compound in Somalia is a record of interactions between people of all cultures interacting on an enclosed compound. Human natured down to basics.

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Ukraine Defines Democracy

March 5, 2022 by Helenfogarassy Leave a Comment

Democreacy is rule by the people but who in the global digical world knows who the people are or what they want? Russia’s unwarranted and unlawful aggressin against Ukraine has taken a big step toward defining democracy in a global world.

Societies around the world have galloped toward development since the Second World War introduced the alternative of annihilation with the nuclear bomb. The United Nations and its multitude of bodies and agencies has played a major role in bettering life in now near-200 countries. This vast network takes on a human face in the novel entitled The Midas Maze. The plot centers on the pitfalls inherent in the juncture of people, governments and bureaucracies.

Bureaucracy had its heyday in the Soviet period behind the Iron Curtain that shrouded Eastern and Centrall Europe from all contact with democracy. In that system, red tape and its use for terror were the ways to elevate the ego by oppressing those pushed lower down in the henhouse pecking order. The Light of a Destiny Dark is a novel based on a memoir that brings to life the grim bleakness of life under that system.

The mayhem of global red tape is captured in Mission Improbable: the world community on a UN compound in Somalia. The memoir is a tribute to communicating across cultures where success or failure depends on any person’a indivual personality. The book shows that Integrity and good will tanscend cultural differences.

Russia’s current leader Vladimiir Putin was a beneficiary of the Soviet red tape form of government. Since the 1989 collapse of the Iron Curtain and the ensuing collapse of the Soviet economy, he has schemed to bring back the order expected to spring him into even greater heights An opening came with Donald Trump, an opportunist of the world leading US democracy. A writer’s view of this union is presented in America Votes Obama to Biden Past Trump. The premis is that America was not itself under the double assault of an American huckster and a former Soviet intelligence agent. Yet when America survived & was coming out of its coma, Putin turned to his second choice, the former satellite that had turned decidedly democratic since shedding its Soviet yoke.

The world’s people have rallied to Ukraine’s support as it has fought off the brutal assault. On behalf of Ukraine’s resolve to preserve its fledgling democracy, world leaders put heads together and even pulled the United Natins out of mothblls to help figure out how to cut through red tape without sparking a third world war. What’s missing from the effort is a full-throated cheer for efforts by the people of the United States.

The land of freedom, opportunity and free speech is mired in a complexity that has left them exhausted. After layers of information ranging from facts to alternative facts, after Trump, Covid and now the threrat of a third world, the people of America need clarity in the ruckus.

The Ukraine crisis makes one contrast very clear. Evil and good are opposites. Good gains momentum by spreading word of its works. Evil exhausts itself & allies by the work need to erect and maintain walls to keep out the good.

Please spread the word about helenfogarassy.com, a website dedicated to promoting good through the written word, especially through cmmunication between America and the rest of the world. The task is daunting. We are in development. An army of tech support advisors are needed to be hired. Contribute comments and donations, preferably both. Your interest will be acknowlrdged here.

We thank you. We and democracy thank the people of Ukraaine. Their valor is far from in vain.

Filed Under: internationalism

Our Valentine World

February 14, 2022 by Helenfogarassy Leave a Comment

Quote: My funny valentine, sweet comic valentine. You make me smile with my heart…you’re my favorite work of art. (show tune from Rodgers & Hart musical Babes in Arms, 1937).

In the news: What’s Going on in this Graph? Global Optimism (The Learning Network study, 2.03.2022, published in The New York Times, 2.10.2022).

In context: On the global stage, bad news drowned good on Valentine’s Day 2022. War was on the brink as Russia menaced Ukraine and staged a game of chicken with democracy. Western Europe showed schisms while reinforcing ties with a US still suffering PTSD from a near coup orchestrated by its former so-called leader. China’s Olympics were floundering, Covid was enraging waves of anti-establishment fanatics and the public seemed exhausted only it wasn’t.

The study conducted by the Learning Network surveyed more than 21,000 people in 21 countries in all regions of the world. The responses were talled in two groups, one of respondents in the 15-24 age range and the other of those 50 years and older.. Surprise. Young people found in the struggles of their elders the seeds of how to go forward for a better world.

Okay, so the world has many prblems and each of its near-200 countries has its own particular variation of fundamentally the same problems. But the magic element of love, the inexplicable secret essence that is the source of the utmost agony and agony in humans is curiosity. “Fools rush in” for the chance to pursue the self-knowledge that the other draws out in us to explore.

“Getting to know you” is the magnet that draws us to venture beyond our comfort zone, past the secure borders that hem us in. That is the courage we have given our young people to dare if we just find the courage to get out of their way. For a better future, we have only to be the fallback cusion for our kids when they need help. help in venturing forward.

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Filed Under: internationalism Tagged With: globalism, optimism, valentine's day

Clear the Decks for Olympic Truce

January 28, 2022 by Helenfogarassy Leave a Comment

Winter Olympics start February 4 in Beijing. World at odds, on edge over #Russia @ #Ukdraine border. US diplos boycotting Olympics because of human rights violations by China. UN, meanwhile, calls for Olympic Truce during period of games to promote peace through sport. Indeed, UN has whole department dedicated to promoting peace and development through sport. During Somalia intervention in mid 1990’s, warring clan fighters put down guns to watch World Cup on communal TVs donated by Cisco.

Plenty of excitement in world without resort to destructive wars. Fight it out on skating rink, bring honor to your country, all near-200 countries of the world. Not in the Games this year? Get inspired, look up your country’s Olympic Committee & sharpen up skate blades. We can all help each other. Olympic flame lights the way.

Read about Somalia and sport in Mission Improbable: the world community on a UN compound in Somalia. Read about the vast UN global network in the novel entitled The Midas Maze. Read about fate we are avoiding now in Light of a Destiny Dark, a true-life novel about Hungary through World War II followed by near-40 years of Soviet domination. And finally, read about the joys of global democracy in America Votes Obama to Biden Past Trump: a kaleidoscopic view of the Trump phenomenon, out just now on major on-line book sites.

The world is resplendent with plenty of diversity to keep all enthralled. Differences inevitable. Fight them out in sport, not bloody conflict. Bon chance, y’all. Meet you in Beijing.

Filed Under: internationalism

Hop To With Biden, Uncle Sam

January 23, 2022 by Helenfogarassy Leave a Comment

Quote: You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing once they have tried everything else (attrib to Winston Churchill, 1940’s)

In the news: Russia and China’s plans for a new world order (Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, 1.22.22)

In context: In a global age of rolling pandemics and climate catastrophes, a world war would seem farthest from any leader’s mind. Yet the header of Bachman’s article in the Financial Times sums up the situation:

“For Moscow and Beijing, the Ukraine crisis is part of a struggle to reduce American power and make the world safe for autocrats.”

Two-thirds of Americans might agree with that assessment if they had time to think about the larger world. But America is stuck in its own relatively smaller concerns of racial equity and resistance to public health mandates. However important, those issues would pale in comparison if the Putin plan for America under Trump had succeeded. Two newly published books by Helen Fogarassy demonstrate the point.

America Votes Obama to Biden Past Trump: a kaleidoscopic view of the Trump phenomenon is a collection of the author’s articles on America in the first two decades of the 21st century. An Amazon reviewer said it was a very thoughtful assessment of a presidency gone awry.
Vivid and unyielding, it is rich with perspectives held by this immigrant cum-citizen offering a fresh approach. No holds barred and edgy, you are in for an enlightening ride through this unfortunate era in our history.

Fogarassy’s novel Light of a Destiny Dark has just been reissued. It is based on a memoir written by her mother shortly after the family escaped Soviet Hungary and landed in Northwest Indiana of the United States. The novel goes beyond the horrors of the Second World War and follows the country through ten years of pillage by the Soviets until the noble but futile revolution before the Iron Curtain finally imploded more than 30 years later. An Amazon reviewer said the book was a good find and very timely. It is noteworthy that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is of the view that the fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest tragedy to befall humankind in the 20th century.

Americans want to venture a guess on how minorities fare in Russia or China? Easy to check on Google News.

Time to hop to, America. Join forces with other democracies however imperfect. They don’t need barbed wire to keep citizens penned in and away from truths.

Filed Under: internationalism Tagged With: China, democracy, russia, US

Democracy Summit. Tune in Thurs/Fri

December 9, 2021 by Helenfogarassy Leave a Comment

Democracy Summit, Thurs/Fri 12.9/10.21

Quote: Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried (Winston Churchill (11.11.47)

In the news: China and Russia attack Biden’s “so-called”Summit of Democracy (Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 12.08.21)

In context:

US President Joe Biden is hosting a Summit on Democracy to be held on Thursday and
Friday, December 9 and 10, 2021. The event has gathered much global derision after the attempted coup on the US Capitol in January of that year.

By definition, democracy is rule by the people, destined to be as flawed as people themselves. But the point of human existence to get ever better, regardless of hindreances that impede. On the global scale required by modern challenges, democracy presents a choice between freedom and subserviance, between law and order versus sophisticated global lawlessness.

The Summit has received little US press coverage and it was panned by global presses before it began. Key among the criticisms was the invite list. Semi, shaky and fragile democracies were included while obvious adversaries were not. For Covid weary folks around the world, a discussion about personsl freedom and common good just might be the right Rx for feeling better.

Tune in to the Summit on Democracy wherever and whenever you can. Vent views on personal freedom versus social responsibility at helenfogarassy.com. But for heaven’s sake, if feeling venomous, call 911. It’s just one of the many safety valves our flawed American democracy has devised for our safety,.

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