Blogpost # 962                                      OXYMORONICA IN ORANGE

As variously known, the term “oxymoron,” denotes a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction, for example, “old news,” “deafening silence,” or “organized chaos.” Faux oxymoronic word combinations are “jumbo shrimp,” (the word “shrimp” is not a dimensional reference like, “jumbo,” but rather an identified sea creature; nor is “military intelligence,” since the second word in the phrase is not contradictory, but, merely a sarcastic comment on general military aptitude. More on this phrase will be discussed later in this writing.

The institution of the popular vote is an overt demonstration of enduring, faith in the ultimate wisdom of the collective citizenry and an existential concomitant of our Nation’s singular, political designation as a democracy. The salient aspiration of America’s Founders was to create a government “by and for the people.” Considering our Nation’s admitted shortcomings, however, mitigated by its ongoing and recognized efforts to ameliorate the same, it can fairly, be said that the intentions of the Founders are in the process of being accomplished. The aspiration towards a universally, equal voting franchise remains, eternally, fundamental, and our Nation, considering its broad diversity of citizens, has noticeably, made significant progress in the achievement of  such salutary standard.

Unfortunately, the  unprecedented elevation to the Oval Office of an ignorant, egocentric, popular game show host and real estate grifter, named Donald J. Trump, (the scion of a family tree of systemically, bigoted real estate grifters) transmogrified the extant American scene into a dystopic nightmare; replacing empirical truth with  self-serving, “alternate reality,” distorting and nullifying the findings of legitimate medical science, demeaning the credibility and standing of America’s institutional media, promoting racism as well as sexual and gender bias, denigrating education and human advancement through study of the arts and the humanities, fostering populist disrespect for the Constitution as well as the Nation’s Laws, maintaining disloyal and traitorous relationships with America’s historical enemies, while confounding its traditional allies with his eccentrically, confused actions, withdrawing membership in the Paris Accords, concerned with Global Warming and other environmental issues, committing major, indictable acts of tax fraud, adjudicated acts of rape, business fraud and deceit, misleading the American public during the COVID pandemic, the latter, resulting in tens of thousands of preventable deaths, orchestrating a violent insurrection against Washington 1/26  based upon his employment of the autocratic- style, “Big Lie,” (“stolen election.”), not to omit his copious criminal record, two impeachments  (during a  single term) plus an ample cornucopia of Federal and State prosecutions.

Notwithstanding Trump’s, universally, known, appalling, record of miscreant behavior, cited above, said charlatan and practitioner of serial mendacity, seems, for reasons, that might applicably, be accorded the descriptive adjectives, bizarre, irrational, Kafka-esque, appallingly, appears to be, the front-runner in the forthcoming, Republican nominations for the Presidency.

Our readings and accumulated knowledge, irrefutably, indicate, that even our Planet’s most primitive organisms, (amoeba, paramecium, bacteria, viruses) either by chemical or physical means, repel from outside sources that are harmful, destructive, or threatening. On the anthropological contrary, such evolutionary, innate survival instinct in the hordes of MAGA Republicans has been held captive to an undeniably, bizarre and ignorant, march to self-destruction.

 In an earlier essay, (“LEMMINGS”) we noted the frightening and astounding ability of Donald Trump to mesmerize his underbelly cult, to vote in such a (suicidal) way, as to ardently, militate for the style of a National, autocratic polity, in which they (themselves) perforce, will be rendered, totally bereft of their presently held personal rights, inclusive of voting and free speech. The faux patriotic cry, “Make America Great Again,” is in effect, oxymoronic, if not empirically and pathologically, delusional, since the aspirations of the MAGA program (viz., autocracy) would be to eliminate American citizens’ traditional Bill of Rights.

By way of a brief return (as above indicated) to the consideration of the term, “oxymoron,” the contemporary scene, appears, to be giving birth to two candid, empirically, accurate, but, notably, exclusive, applications of the bizarre term. The phrases, that would now, empirically, qualify for the esoteric category of “oxymoronic,” [exclusively, applicable to the large herd of MAGA, followers] are the nouns, “voter,” and “President.”

The contextual meaning of “voter,” connotes the candid, free, expression of personal interest or preference, regarding a person or cause. The MAGA constituency faithfully and thoughtlessly, votes for such autocratic preferences, faithfully, as expressed, by Donald Trump.

The term, “President,” as properly employed, refers to the Chief Executive Officer of the United States, selected by the greatest number of its self-interested, free-thinking citizens, based upon their perception of apparent capabilities, point of view, and suitable character. The oxymoronic, designation of the word, “President,” as appropriately, applied to the persona of Donald J. Trump, is demonstrably, obvious, and tautologically, cynical.

-p.