The human species is eugenically denominated, “Homo sapiens” and universally characterized as “sentient.” It is our understanding that the terms, “sapiens” relate to intelligence and “sentient” to “responsive” (to his environment). Nevertheless, after a felt eternity of an arduous struggle for tolerance, we have reached the saturation point of MAGA ignorance, false conspiracy ideations, and sophomoric attempts at the obfuscation of reality. A more accurate term for such sub-category of humankind might be more factually 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, appears to have sent a notably retrogressive message to the Nation relative to the progress of society to enlightenment and social equality. It seems to have attracted a substantial, formerly amorphous, and unheard, from, discontented populist citizens to his cult-like obeisance. The “reign” of this erratic, incapable, and egocentric head of state, at his instance, saw the fundamental concept of “truth” replaced by the subjective concept of “alternate facts,” the denigration of the Constitution and the Law, and the societal recognition of moral compass. Trump’s many cultish followers perceived his misleading trope, “Make America Great Again” (MAGA), as an effort to assuage their disparate grounds of discontent. Such virulent pathology swiftly metastasized with presenting symptomatic impact in the world of many legislators and other political officials; the latter, fearful of the votes of the numerous MAGA acolytes. The Nation was consigned to the official devaluation of empirical truth and personally held standards of morality, the democratically vital, institution of the free press, and, broadly, America’s foundational institutions. Such damage to the basic tenets of the Nation has persisted following Trump’s singular term of office and constitutes a matter of concern by mainstream citizens as to the existence and endurance of our Democratic Republic.
In such a worrisome political context, we have been relegated to serial falsity and prevarication, bizarre conspiracy ideations such as medical vaccines that purportedly contain micro-computers for citizen surveillance, rockets shot to Earth by Israel, voter machines and ballots secretly altered, and most devastating, the assertion that the election was rigged and victory “stolen” from the ego-centric and paranoid, Donald Trump (the “Big Lie”). The latter deceit, albeit fully disproven, remains loyally subscribed to by Trump’s large worshipful, populist cult.
The Nation has been further confronted with false, witless, and, candidly speaking, “birdbrained” political attempts to tactically undermine the regular process of democratic government. If such attempts were not so facially dim-witted, they indeed might be threatening. We will summarize three selected examples of such sophomoric and irrational arguments with which, as stated at the outset of this writing, we have come to a state of exhaustion, due to their facially obvious deep-seated inanity.
The first is the unhinged and sophomorically declared intention to impeach, the President, Joseph Biden, and his DHS Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. The same is a witless response to the impeachments of their miscreant cult leader, President Donald Trump.
The Constitution specifically defines the legal basis for the 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, criminal purloining and the disclosure of top secret government documents, treasonous liaisons with foreign enemy leaders, lying under oath and substantial violations of the Constitutional “Emolument Clause.” By contrast, relevant to Biden and Mayorkas, there appears to be no proof presented supporting any claims of wrongdoing (let alone, “high crimes and misdemeanors). Such desire is revelatory of an insipid and jejune level of adolescent justice (“tit for tat”) and consistent with the revealed, colossal ignorance of Trump and his sycophantic (MAGA) followers.
The second (of many)of the three selected bogus and unjustifiable MAGA assertions is the tactical denial 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 subject to self-interested 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 by the right wing of the inapplicability to Trump of this clear and self-executing provision is remarkably at odds with its historically zealous support of the “literal” and “original intent” interpretations of the Constitution; it is comparable to “a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.” [Shakespeare, “Macbeth”).
Our third selected instance of such partisan and shameless inanity is the MAGA assertion that, in the airtight prosecution of Trump’s respecting his 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 such iron-clad case based upon an alleged sexual liaison with one of the prosecuting staff.
The state of acute desperation implicit in the desperate manufacture of such a strained and irrelevant issue concerning the alleged sexual affair is, rationally, 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, must be rationally aware that there is an open-and-shut case against their revered, orange-haired miscreant, and, specifically, that the private social life of the prosecuting attorney is far from a relevant consideration in Trump’s proven 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.
*T\hanks to Charles Darwin for our slightly mutated use of his classic title, “Origin of the Species.”
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