The human species, as commonly known, has been eugenically denominated, “Homo sapiens” and universally characterized as “sentient.” It is our understanding that the term, “sapiens” relates to intelligence and “sentient” to “responsive” (to his environment). Nevertheless, after a felt eternity of an arduous struggle for tolerance, we now confess to having reached the saturation point concerning MAGA ignorance, its conspiracy ideations, and sophomoric attempts at obfuscation of reality. A more accurate term for such sub-category of humankind might be more empirically descriptive, such as “Homo dopo.”
As observed in prior writings, the surprise ascendency of the inauspicious miscreant, Donald J. Trump to America’s Oval Office, sent a notably retrogressive message to the Nation relative to the enlightened progress of society. It seems to have attracted a substantial, formerly amorphous, and silent population of discontented populist citizens to his cult-like obeisance. The “reign” of this erratic, incapable, and egocentric head of state, at his direction, saw the fundamental concept of “truth” replaced by the subjective concept of “alternate facts,” the denigration of the Constitution, the Law, and the accepted societal recognition of moral compass. Trump’s many cultish followers ascribed his misleading trope, “Make America Great Again” (MAGA), to a perceived effort to assuage their disparate grounds of discontent. Such virulent pathology swiftly metastasized with presenting symptomatic effects in the world of many legislators and other political officials, fearful of the votes of the numerous MAGA acolytes. Tragically, the Nation was consigned to the devaluation of empirical truth and personally held standards of morality, the institution of the free press, and, broadly, America’s foundational institutions. Unfortunately, such potential for damage to the basic tenets of our Nation has persisted after Trump’s singular term of office and presently constitutes a matter of existential concern for mainstream American citizens concerned for the endurance of our Democratic Republic.
In this worrisome political context, we have been relegated to falsity and serial prevarication, fantastic conspiracy ideations such as medical vaccines that contain micro-computers for citizen surveillance, rockets shot to Earth by Israel, voter machines and ballots secretly altered, and most devastating, that the election was rigged and victory “stolen” from the ego-centric and paranoid, Donald Trump (the “Big Lie”). The latter deceitful charge albeit disproven, remains loyally subscribed to, by Trump’s large populist cult.
In recent days the Nation has been further confronted with false, witless, and, frankly speaking, “birdbrained” political attempts to tactically undermine the regular process of democratic government. If such attempts were not so facially dim-witted, they might be threatening. We will summarize three examples of such averred sophomoric and irrational arguments; however, as stated at the beginning of this writing we are thoroughly exhausted by their deep-seated inanity.
The first is the unhinged and childishly declared intention to “impeach,” the President, Joseph Biden, and his DHS Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, apparently, as an inane, sophomoric response to the impeachments of their miscreant cult leader, President Donald Trump. The Constitution defines the grounds for impeachment of a President, as having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The twice-impeached Trump has, after an official inquiry been found guilty of voter interference, initiating and managing a violent insurrection against the American Government, treason, tax fraud, rape, defamation, bribery to cover up his brisk commerce with prostitutes, larceny, and disclosure of top secret government documents, treasonous liaisons with foreign enemy leaders, lying under oath and substantial violations of the Constitutional “Emolument Clause.” By bright contrast, there appear to be no facts presented, supporting any claims of wrongdoing (let alone, “high crimes and misdemeanors) relevant to Biden and Mayorkas. Such childish and ignorant desire is revelatory of an insipid and jejune level of adolescent justice (“tit for tat”) and consistent with the evident state of colossal ignorance of Trump and his sycophantic (MAGA) followers.
The second of the three selected bogus and unjustifiable MAGA assertions (of the many) is that the provisions of Article 14 (3) of the U.S. Constitution are inapplicable and insufficient to ban Trump from once more, standing for election for President.
The authorizing language is simple, clear, and not potentially subject to tactical interpretation. It indisputably provides that any officeholder who has taken the Federal oath of office and participates in an insurrection against the Government shall be ineligible to stand for, or hold office. There can exist no remaining doubt that Donald Trump was the planner, inciter, and manager of the January 6, 2020 insurrection. The shameless assertion, of the inapplicability to Trump of this clear and self-executing provision, is shamelessly, enunciated by the Conservative Right; notably, the historically zealous supporters of the “literal” and “original intent” interpretations of the Constitution is comparable to “a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.” [Shakespeare, “Macbeth”).
Our third selection of such partisan and shameless inanity is the MAGA assertion that, in the airtight case of Trump’s overt illegal, and unconstitutional interference with the Georgia vote for President (much of which was viewed on public television) the Prosecuting Attorney, Fani Lewis, should be dismissed from the iron-clad case based upon a claimed sexual liaison with one of the prosecuting staff.
The desperation implicit in the manufacture of such a strained and irrelevant issue concerning the alleged sexual affair is factually light years away in relevance to the facts and issues in the case against Donald Trump, for voter interference in Georgia’s Presidential election. The entire public, inclusive of the MAGA cultists, is well aware that there is an open-and-shut case against their revered, orange-haired miscreant, and, deep down of the rational view that the private social life of the prosecuting attorney is far from a relevant consideration respecting Trump’s crime against the Republic.
It is terrifying to consider the possibility that the American Ship of State could, conceivably be guided by such demonstrably harebrained and untoward navigators.
*Thanks to Charles Darwin for our slightly mutated use of his classic title, “Origin of the Species.”
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