*[N.B. In this editorial writing, for thematic impact, we have taken the liberty of creating an entirely fictional, but otherwise factually accurate, letter from the late Alexsey Navalny directed to the (MAGA) supporters of the American Presidency of Donald J. Trump]:
From: Mr. Aleksey Navalny
Russian Punitary Penal Colony
Solitary Confinement Chamber
Siberian Artic Circle
To: Supporters of Donald Trump
a/k/a “MAGA”
USA
Dear American friends,
This letter has been written to you, as fellow citizens of the universal humankind, with the intention, as seems to be needed, of raising an errant and vitally important awareness. I would sincerely urge you to take a moment to consider the predictably hazardous outcome of your expressed worldview and self-immolating (as well as societally, destructive) support of Donald Trump; the latter, a publically declared autocratic dictator. We, in Putin’s Russia, in sync with the unfortunate citizens of contemporary Nations, such as North Korea, China, and Hungary, have been deprived of our natural rights to freedom, self-determination, and personal fulfillment by the profoundly corrupt and inhumane rule of autocracy.
Whatever may be the perceived cause of your expressed support for an authoritarian and undemocratic leader, it would be beneficial, even mandatory, in your interest and that of your Nation, to carefully consider the inevitable impact on your life, as shown by history, should your Democratic Republic be replaced by an autocratic or dictator-run polity.
As citizens of a democratic country, you enjoy the inalienable right to live where you choose, speak your mind, regardless of point of view, vote for your preference of leader, read your personal choice of newspaper, purchase, and own property, to believe whatever seems personally credible, aspire to any desired profession or engage in your privately owned and managed business, petition or sue the government for a professed redress of grievances, travel when and where you desire, freely assemble with others of common interest or peaceful protest, enjoy the virtually unrestricted privilege of self-determination (provided your action does not injure another or restrict his rights), participate as desired in society, run for office, pursue any desired course of study, own property, travel freely, reside where preferred, and, generally, pursue any desired action, in a non-harmful manner.
None of the above freedoms can be assured or permitted to be exercised under totalitarian, or autocratic rule. The autocratic leader is omnipotent and his will, arbitrary or otherwise, is unquestionably and mandatorily to be obeyed. By definitional and dynamic contrast, the arbitrary and corrupt dispensation of “justice,” is solely dependent upon demonstrated loyalty to the authoritarian, or dictatorial State.
Whatever may be your sense of grievance or perceived critique of the Democratic candidate, you can be assured of greater and more fundamentally profound grievances under the restrictive rule of an autocrat or dictator. [It is essential to take notice that your presently desired candidate for the American Presidency, Donald Trump, has ominously stated that he intends to be a Dictator.]
As a private (Russian) citizen and a family man I have demonstrated the sincerity of my stated principles by my submission to the hardships endured in my earnest attempts to remove the corrupt and autocratic rule of our mafia-like autocrat, Vladimir Putin. I have not been alone in this endeavor, which, nevertheless, has proven to be unsuccessful to date due to the unlimited and unrestrained dictatorial power and resources of Putin. I had, long ago, made the principled and sacrificial choice to value democracy above my life and ultimately, the well-being of my family. I have not been the first to do so, and expect that I will not be the last. A recent, well-publicized, relevant episode, consisted of Putin’s downing of an airplane by Biden, pathologically, resulting in the homicide of all passengers, notably among whom, was the target, a perceived threat to Putin’s power, General Prigozhin.
My hard-fought but modest successes in publically opposing Putin’s corrupt autocratic rule have resulted in long and heartrending separation from my family, painful hunger strikes, serial imprisonments, and undergoing (failed) attempts at poisoning (the standard Putin rejoinder to criticism), including a publically known and intended-fatal administration of Russian military nerve gas, from which I miraculously survived, being treated in a German hospital by life-saving, but frighteningly prolonged periods of coma.
After recovery, I determined the cause of democracy to remain paramount and, with full awareness of the predictable danger, I undertook to return to Russia, where, upon landing, as expected, I was immediately arrested and after that sentenced to a five-year term of solitary confinement at a famously known and nightmarishly, dreaded Siberian penal colony located in the frigid Arctic Circle.
[I have just been ordered to go outdoors for a walk, and it is my candid and unpleasant expectation that I will be summarily executed, somewhere, out on the polar ice]
Those who suicidally, and in lemming-like* fashion, would have voted for the pronounced autocratic candidate for President, who would now elect to vote in favor of the human liberty inherent in the democratic system of government, have merely to rationally and prudently cast their vote in favor of democracy; inarguably, a far easier and less painful task than my undertaken experiences in support of that singular and humanistic form of government.
Farewell and God Bless,
Alexey
*[see early plinyblog: “LEMMINGS”]
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