It appears to be a universal nuance of the human persona, that repeated cautions and warnings, regardless of the seriousness of the articulated jeopardy, suffer some measure of loss in impact and exigent significance, by their numerous reiteration. Looking back at the virtual plethora of rational admonitions (appropriately and urgently) articulated over the past twelve months, concerning the existential threat, posed by Trump and his unwashed MAGA horde of populists to our democracy, it may be useful (with apologies to Sr. Guglielmo Marconi) to express a description of the imminent threat to the Nation, in the analogous terms of a dynamic electrical grid.
The electrical grid, itself, is a network of synchronized power and its connected consumers. We understand that Grids are synchronized, meaning that all distributive areas operate with a three-phase alternating current so that predictable voltage swings occur virtually, simultaneously.
The empirical likelihood of the election of the darling of the MAGA populists, Donald J. Trump, whose immorality and autocratic intentions proclaim him, historically, as the first American President to be criminally indicted, poses an existential threat to the structural apparatus and the generational power source of our historically unique and reliably functioning, American Democracy. Trump, in, no doubt, in his maiden reputational moment of veracity, has publically and unashamedly declared that, if re-elected, he will be a “dictator,” (i.e., “for one day”). In our selected analogical context, he predictably would autonomously and dictatorially“short-circuit” our democratic and, well-functioning, tri-partite grid and rule.
As analogously expressed, to the scientifically devised structure and operation of the existentially democratically (three-phase) grid, any such consequential power failure or, extinguishment, of our Founders’ constitutionally mandated, architecturally structured design of the Nation’s singular “balance of powers,” would, in very short order, result in a disastrous and irreparable termination of the salutary flow of the foundational dynamics of the Nation’s soundly and equitably established polity and conceivably the ultimate ” blackout” of our celebrated American way of life. Should such a national catastrophe be permitted to occur, as demonstrated by history, such tragic conditions are not, empirically, alleviated by any facile procedure analogously comparable to routinely changing a blown fuse.
As an enlightened American citizen and, notably, in the citizen’s self-interest, it is mandatorily advisable to soberly and responsibly, recognize the coming Presidential election, in realistic, empirical, and impactful effect, as a pitted and ultimate contest between the salutary, free, and enlightened existence ofour constitutionally granted, franchise of personal liberty and the autocratic, historically, predictable, darkened and repressed state of autocracy.
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